Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") are bringing an exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer with experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE to help build and scale their global product platform using cutting-edge technologies and impact DBT's upcoming 5-year roadmap. £59,634 - £78,981 including allowances plus 27% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford and Edinburgh.
The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Government Digital and Data (GDaD) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.
If you would like to find out more about the role, the Platform Engineering team and what it's like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Tuesday 13th August at 12:30pm. Link to book on is included on the application website when you click to apply.
Job Description:
DBT are on a mission to build a new cutting edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing services from GOV.UK PasS in the process. Are you up to the challenge of building something new? We need Platform Engineers to make sure DBT's Internet services are hosted the most performant, secure and feature rich platform to meet at the developer experience.
Responsibilities: As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.
You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You'll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.
You will work with the following technologies:
- Amazon Web Services
- Azure
- AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
- Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
- Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
- ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
- Python and Django framework
- PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
- Sentry
- Redis/Elasticache
Essential Skills and Experience:
- Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud
- Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (e.g., AWS Copilot, Terraform, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
- Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code
- Experience in designing, analysing, and troubleshooting distributed systems
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking
- Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turn
Desirable Skills and Experience
- Designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
- PaaS,?Kubernetes,?Django,?oauth2/saml2 integrations in Python
- Defining and measuring Service Level Objectives???
- Observability driven development
- Prototyping through reuse?of existing?Open Source?components
Benefits In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:
- Salary between £59,634 - £78,981 depending on skills assessed at interview and location
- Flexible, hybrid working from London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford including options for condensed hours
- Best-in-class training and development tailored to your role with study days and certifications expensed
- Annual leave starting at 26 days per annum plus statutory bank holidays rising to 33 days with service
- An excellent Civil Service pension scheme starting at 27% employer contribution
Further information:
- This role requires you to undergo SC clearance where the requirement is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years.
- DBT does not hold a UK Visa & Immigration (UKVI) Skilled Worker License sponsor and are unable to sponsor any individuals for Skilled Worker Sponsorship.
If you are an experienced Platform, SRE or a DevOps Engineer with the ability to build reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems and looking to impact a function that will make a real difference to the UK economy, then apply today or contact Zymante Gintalaite (Zee) at Inspire People in complete confidence for further information.