Platform Engineer

Key responsibilities and Accountabilities

As a member of the Platform Development team, build the tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience

Provide expertise and input in to the design and implementation of IaC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security and developer enablement

Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department

Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work

On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team

Work as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business

Skills and Ability

Good understanding of database concepts and management

Experience with containers Kubernetes service mesh orchestration is a plus

Good understanding of Azure Platform Engineering especially in relation to automation and yaml pipelines

Excellent understanding of DevOps-centric concepts

Good general infrastructure knowledge including networking basics

Good general development skills

Knowledge and Experience

Enterprise experience of Azure

Excellent understanding of SDLC best practises

Excellent understanding of Infrastructure as Code Desired State Configuration Terraform Ansible etc

Advanced level of experience using command line scripting tools such as Azure CLI Bash and Powershell

A relevant degree with IT Technology or equivalent professional certifications