Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Platform Engineer will provide full lifecycle assistance to Development, Testing and Production environments. You’ll have knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Cloud environments (PaaS & laaS), Microsoft Server OS, Microsoft SQL Server, PowerShell & CI/CD platforms. The team is responsible for the current Clue technology infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, escalated support, and Information Security. You will be an experienced hands-on engineer who is passionate about DevOps, Platform Engineering, security, reliability, performance, and empowering the Product Development teams to take ownership for shipping continuously and reliably to production. A key focus for the Platform Engineer is Developer Experience - enabling engineers to build solutions whilst helping to keep everything safe, secure, and cost effective. You will also be influential in magnifying these practices and approaches throughout Clue.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Cloud environments (PaaS & IaaS), Microsoft Server OS, Microsoft SQL Server, PowerShell & CI/CD platforms
• Experienced hands-on engineer
• Passionate about DevOps, Platform Engineering, security, reliability, performance, and empowering Product Development teams
• Hold a current Microsoft Azure Fundamentals certification
• Experience with automating Microsoft Azure deployments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and designing Cloud systems
• Experience building and operating consumer-facing services
• Demonstrable experience as an infrastructure, operations, or technical expert bridging development and operations
• Previous experience in cloud management, code and test, scaling, automation, source control, deployment, and backup
• Experience using Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy (or another CI/CD tool) to automate software releases
• Scripting experience in PowerShell, Python, Go, or Bash
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Passion for learning, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement
• Passion for DevOps and Platform as a Service
• Understanding of security and compliance requirements related to platform infrastructure
• Experience with observability practices and tooling, incident management processes, and driving operational excellence

Responsibilities

• Provide full lifecycle assistance to Development, Testing and Production environments
• Responsible for the current Clue technology infrastructure, CI/CD, monitoring, escalated support, and Information Security
• Magnify practices and approaches throughout Clue
• Work as part of an agile team providing services and tools to internal engineering teams
• Identify opportunities for improvement
• Foster and mentor a progressive engineering culture
• Suggest new technologies and approaches
• Contribute to the technical direction of Platform Engineering
• Provide operational support and continuous improvement of the Platform estate and processes
• Collaborate with technical leads on design, implementation, administration, and support of platform solutions and services
• Continuously assess and optimize the platform for performance, scalability, and reliability
• Ensure platform adherence to industry standards and best practices for security and compliance
• Maintain and improve the cloud platform, acting as a key escalation point
• Ensure automation, process efficiency, and appropriate tooling are utilized to reduce cycle times and improve reliability, audit, and traceability for deployments
• Undertake setup and configuration of cloud provisioning and monitoring in cloud and hosted environments
• Ensure Development Teams have optimal environments, removing obstacles and introducing automation
• Consistently apply and improve process, best practice, system, and application build standards
• Learn new skills and develop career through diverse projects with a focus on continuous improvement
• Ensure reliability, security, quality, and scaling of the Platform to meet growing demand
• Support production environments, ensuring protection by governance, good practice/process design, and 'fit for purpose' environments

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