£75K/yr to £85K/yr
England, United Kingdom
Permanent, Variable

Platform Engineer

Posted by WeDo Technology Solutions Limited.

Wedo is working with a software powerhouse, that builds enterprise-grade software solutions that are sold to tier 1 and tier 2 insurers globally. Their software and enterprise products leverage SaaS, Cloud, Data Management, Analytics as well as Machine Learning and AI and is built with Angular front end, with C# .NET Core Microservices hosted on Azure.

They are now looking for a Platform Engineer with strong DevOps experience to join their team.

Their products are used by 500+ companies, 23 of the largest insurance companies globally, and are responsible for 100 million quotes each day. Their software is highly complex and is a complete, end-to-end, analytics and model deployment solution.

The Role:

  • Support the team as they build out a new SaaS platform based on Azure services.
  • Build out platform components primarily using C#.
  • Build and improve CI/CD pipelines for product teams with focus on high cadence and cost effectiveness.
  • Help to define and build tooling that will maximize the developer experience of platform users.
  • Work with the team to define infrastructure requirements.
  • Create infrastructure as code, primarily with Pulumi

The essential skills/experience for this position are:

  • Proficient in software development using C# .NET.
  • Experience of cloud technologies (primarily Azure), in areas such as networking, storage, integration, compute and analytics
  • Experience building pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps.
  • Experience with the full software development lifecycle in a commercial/production environment: requirements capture and analysis, estimation, detailed software design, implementation, unit and system-level testing, installation and deployment, maintenance.
  • Experience with software engineering best practices: object-oriented design and implementation, design patterns, SOLID principles, Agile and Extreme Programming methodologies.
  • Strong team player with the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively.

Reason to join them?

  • Work part of a large engineering community of 550 tech folk
  • The average tenure in technology is 7 years
  • Well-defined career pathways for IC and leadership roots
  • Learn from some of the best engineering talent in the .NET space
  • 40% of their board of directors identify at Female.
  • 75% of the board committee chairs are diverse in: gender, ethnicity, nationality and neurologically.
  • Part of Bloomberg's Gender-Equality Index for 2023
  • Awarded: Stonewell LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer award in 2023, Women in Governance Parity certified and Equality 100 Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace inclusion.

Interview Process?

  • Stage 1 - 30 mins
  • Stage 2 - Remote technical test
  • Stage 3 - 1.5 hr technical interview

Estimated time to hire: 2 weeks E2E

Benefits?

  • 14% pension
  • 7.5% bonus (which increased based on seniority)
  • Private health and Life Assurance
  • Holiday allowance: 25 days standard + buy and sell holiday of 5 additional days
  • Enhanced Maternity + Paternity pay
  • Benefit flex scheme
  • Free parking & easy commute links

Don't feel like you hit all of the above criteria? We'd still love to hear from you! We encourage you to apply for the position and state the reasons why you feel you'd be a great fit and what experience could add real value to the role.

To apply for this position hit quick apply today, connect with John Delnevo on LinkedIn or hit apply today with your CV. We will aim to review your CV within 48 hours. If you've not heard from us, it's likely we feel your CV hasn't met the criteria on this instance, however, we may keep your details for future applications.