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Lead Platform Engineer - Bradford
£100,000 - 100,000
GMA Consulting
Grammar School Street, Bradford
£100,000 - 100,000
Requirements
Must:
As a candidate for the Lead Platform Engineer position, you will need to bring the following qualifications and skills to the table:
- Expertise in complicated Salesforce environments; experience with Copado for CI/CD is beneficial.
- Strong and proven experience with a well-known cloud PaaS, preferably Azure.
- Familiarity with Linux and the shell.
- Strong programming skills in C#, PowerShell, scripting languages, JavaScript, and Python.
- Experience with common infrastructure platforms, applications, and services such as Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, and Splunk.
- Familiarity with containerization systems, such as Kubernetes and Docker, is advantageous.
- Proficiency in Azure DevOps and managing multi-stage pipelines for large-scale software estates, including build, release, monitoring, rollbacks, and high availability.
- Strong understanding of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/3, AMQP, and streaming protocols, as well as cloud network design (VPNs, subnets, regions/zones) and integration technologies (Auth0, APIM).
- Strong database knowledge and experience with relational, graph, and document models across various consistency models.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) toolchains, such as Terraform.
Technologies
C#
CI/CD
HTTP
Kanban
Nginx
PaaS
Responsibilities
In this role, I will take charge of evolving and building a new Digital Platform that is performant at scale, secure, compliant with internal and industry regulations, and meets availability requirements. My tasks will include:
- Documenting existing processes and automating them using my own software and/or third-party tools.
- Building, operating, and maintaining the Cloud Infrastructure, including PaaS infrastructure in Azure and SaaS platform components like Salesforce.
- Collaborating with product engineering teams to recommend development changes.
- Liaising with internal service suppliers and product teams to enhance speed and reliability in end-to-end solutions and associated CI/CD processes.
- Working closely with information security teams to implement security policies efficiently and flexibly.
- Designing, building, operating, monitoring, and alerting technology for complex multi-site B2C and B2B applications.
- Creating comprehensive documentation and software to ensure all actions are repeatable.
- Improving and automating operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, and internal workflows.
- Tracing issues through multiple systems and collaborating with developers to find and diagnose root causes.
- Working with internal customers of my Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) products to ensure effective lifecycle management.
- Participating in an agile program and adhering to Scrum or Kanban principles.
Description
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to join a dynamic and successful insurance business that is well-respected both in the UK and internationally. We are looking for a Lead Platform Engineer who has a valid UK work visa. If you are passionate about developing high-quality platforms and are ready to take on this exciting challenge, we encourage you to apply!
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