Description
This fast growing global consultancy is looking to take on a Senior Platform Engineer who will be at the forefront of cloud technology using your skills for a variety of undertakings.
This is a real end to end role. You will be expected to take a project from the information and discovery stages through initial concept and design to implementation, build and support.
Exposure to a wide variety of technologies and software is a given and you will be expected to investigate the use of new technologies as they become available.
Responsibilities:
- Work with customers to translate requirements into technical designs and follow this through to delivery of the solution.
- Design, plan and build highly available, global and Cloud native platforms.
- Advise customers on modern software and architecture techniques such as 12 factor, microservices and serverless.
- Identify optimisation opportunities across customer environments and lead their design and implementation.
- Develop internal tooling for the wider Platform Team.
- Assisting customers in understanding how cloud technology can help them grow and the benefits it offers.
- Mentoring junior members of the team and helping to drive their development.
Key Skills:
- Extensive hands-on experience with GCP in a production environment
- Great communication (in person and written) skills
- Ability to write tooling in at least one programming language
- A thorough understanding of Terraform and deployment methodologies associated with the tool
- Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems
- Understanding of application development, delivery and infrastructure automation
Key Tooling Experience:
Experience with some of the following:
- Containerisation technologies (eg Docker)
- Configuration management tooling (eg Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt)
- Excellent understanding of the Linux operating system (eg Debian, CentOS)
- Continuous integration and deployment tool sets (eg Jenkins, ArgoCD, GoCD)
- Common DevOps technology stacks (eg ELK, NGINX, Apache, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, Redis, Consul)
- Database technologies including MySQL and PostgreSQL
Desirable Skills:
- CKA and/or GCP Professional Certs
- Consulting experience - not just hands-on GCP
- Python skills
- Mentoring junior engineers
- Commercial Kubernetes operational experience
Location:
This role will be primarily remote based
Lawrence Harvey is acting as an Employment Business in regards to this position.