Platform Engineer, AVP

Join us as a Platform Engineer

• This is an opportunity to take on a high profile role, which will see you design, build and improve our platforms
• You'll be making sure that they are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stack
• Hone your technical expertise and advance your career in this exciting, fast paced role
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level
  
  

What you'll do

As a Platform Engineer, you'll be responsible for keeping our platforms robust, cost-efficient, and consistently optimised. You'll play a key role as well in enhancing the technology stack by introducing new features and addressing defects in a timely manner. We'll also look to you to contribute to the codebase, making sure it remains clean, elegant, reusable, easy to maintain and extend.

You'll Also Be

• Proactively performing code and designing peer reviews
• Making sure platforms and operational issues, defects, and maintenance activities are appropriately prioritised while delivering highly available, high-performing solutions
• Owning, developing, and improving platform engineering tools, processes, and ways of working
• Pioneering new ideas to improve the platform delivery lifecycle, from design and coding to automation and effective operational support
• Responsible for implementing identity, authentication, mobility, messaging, and collaboration solutions on the Microsoft Cloud
  
  

The skills you'll need

We're looking for someone with extensive hands-on experience in Azure, with the ability to design, build, and deploy solutions using Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment practices. You'll also need a deep understanding of Azure resources, particularly Kubernetes Services, Cosmos Database, SQL DB, and key networking components.

To succeed in this role, strong knowledge of Azure and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Bicep, Terraform, and Azure Resource Manager templates is essential. Moreover, you'll have to be an advocate for containerisation and cloud native solutions, championing best practices across modern platform engineering.

You'll Also Need

• A solid understanding of CI/CD principles and Application Programming Interface management
• Hands-on experience with Azure administration, including Hub-and-Spoke networking and cloud best practices across platform and security
• Experience with real-time logging and monitoring using tools such as New Relic, Log Analytics, AppInsights, and Azure Monitor
• Experience in implementing Disaster Recovery strategies and business continuity plans
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft tools and technologies including Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Device Management, Endpoint Manager, and cloud best practices across platform and security