Job summary
About us
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways.�
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.
The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.
About the role
We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing DBT services from PasS in the process. Are you up to the challenge of building something new? We need Platform Engineers to make sure our Internet services are hosted the most performant, secure and feature rich platform to meet at the developer experience.
Job description
Main responsibilities
As a Senior Platform Engineer - Python, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines. �
You�ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You�ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.�
You will be using:
1. Amazon Web Services
2. Azure
3. AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
4. Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
5. Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
6. ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
7. Python and Django framework
8. PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
9. Sentry
10. Redis/Elasticache
Person specification
Skills and experience
It is essential that you have:
11. Experience and fluency in Python, writing clean and effective code.
12. Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud.
13. Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
14. Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems.
15. Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
16. Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure changes.
It is desirable that you have:
17. Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
18. PaaS, Kubernetes, Django, oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python
19. Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components
Benefits
20. Learning and development tailored to your role
21. An environment with flexible working options
22. A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
23. A with an employer contribution of