Role: Lead Platform Engineer
Location: Remote, with some travel to Corsham
Rate: £500 outside IR35
Clearance: DV (or SC willing to undergo DV).
We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to help us build the D2S Platform, a cloud-native Kubernetes environment for defence applications.
Key responsibilities
The Lead Platform Engineer delivers and integrates software to form a complete DevOps toolchain. They are responsible for planning and designing large groups of stories.
- transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery
- provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues
- ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable and highly available
- have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems
Knowledge of and ability to implement solutions for:
- VMware / Similar virtualisation platforms
- OpenShift / Kubernetes
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- Infoblox / DNS
- TLS certificate management
- Dell Data Domain / backups
- Dell PowerScale / storage
Desirable Qualifications
- ITIL Foundation
- Cloud certifications, e.g. AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional