platform engineer in cloud platforms

Описание

AND Digital is a technology company focused on accelerating digital delivery and closing the digital skills gap. Since 2014, it has helped organisations build better digital products and stronger digital teams through close relationships with regional offices across the UK and Europe.

Задачи

• Define and evolve the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for an AWS cloud platform;
• Design and build scalable, secure, resilient, and reusable platform capabilities;
• Develop self-service tooling and services that improve developer productivity;
• Drive automation across infrastructure, application delivery, operational processes, and platform management;
• Establish and promote platform standards, engineering patterns, and best practices;
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, performance, observability, and operational efficiency;
• Identify opportunities to reduce engineering friction, eliminate repetitive work, and accelerate software delivery;
• Establish engineering principles and guardrails for security, reliability, and governance;
• Lead complex platform initiatives from discovery and architectural design through implementation and operational adoption;
• Influence engineering teams and senior stakeholders on platform strategy, architectural decisions, and technology choices;
• Mentor and develop engineers and promote strong platform engineering practices;
• Champion automation, ownership, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Требования

• Significant experience designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale;
• Experience building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities;
• Experience applying platform-as-a-product principles to improve developer experience;
• Experience establishing standards and paved-road approaches that enable engineering teams to work independently;
• Experience designing highly available, scalable, and resilient cloud-native architectures;
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security;
• Experience making architectural trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, and developer experience;
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning;
• Experience with CI/CD and automated software delivery;
• Experience establishing repeatable, standardised engineering workflows;
• Experience designing platforms for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence;
• Experience applying SRE principles and practices to improve availability and reduce operational risk;
• Experience in performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, and proactive reliability improvement;
• Experience establishing service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and operational practices;
• Experience providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation;
• Ability to influence architecture and technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority;
• Experience leading complex technical initiatives and driving decisions through ambiguity;
• Experience mentoring senior and developing engineers and creating a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence.

Условия

• 12-Month fixed-term contract;
• Blended Working model with work available from home, the clubhouse, or a client location;
• Opportunities to work on projects with big clients and produce meaningful work;
• Dedicated career scrum team;
• Annual budget for training and upskilling, including allocated study days;
• Monthly and quarterly team socials;
• Safe and inclusive working environment.

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