Description
Platform Engineer - Big Data
Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires a Platform Engineer to be based in their client's offices in London. You can work remotely until covid abates.
This is 12 month temporary contract, to start on 19th April 2021.
You will be working closely with other technology teams in delivering robust, flexible data platforms to a wide-ranging team of Analysts, Data Scientists and Developers.
The right candidate will be well versed in using Terraform, CI/CD tooling, configuration management using Ansible, code repositories based on GIT, a good level of Linux system admin experience and a high degree of coding skills using Python, Bash and Go.
A good grounding in big data batch and streaming solutions would be a bonus.
Key Responsibilities:
- The Platform Engineer will drive best in practice and field approaches to the build and maintenance of Big Data estate platforms
- Plan, manage, and perform upgrades on all Data Services related infrastructure as required
- Ensure client Big Data Platform SLAs are achievable and met
- Building and setting up new development tools
- Work alongside Platform Engineers to help build robust, scalable and secure solutions
- Interact with a variety of business stakeholders to attain the right operational solution
- Work with the Platform Engineering Manager to ensure the systems and products delivered operate within the budgets for operational expenditure
Key Requirements:
- 10+ years of experience
- Experience of having worked within SysAdmin/Operations/DevOps/SRE
- Experience delivering operational solutions using a range of language and tools
- Python and Linux Scripting skills are a must
- Exposure to JVM based languages and environments is also highly beneficial
- Experienced in.nix especially open source Linux distributions such as Ubuntu
- Experience with configuration management tools eg Ansible, Terraform and Cloud Formation
- Ideally have experience of NoSQL
- Technical capabilities/knowledgeable in the area of continuous delivery and continuous integration, using standard tools such as Code Pipeline, Jenkins, TeamCity, GIT, Maven, Gradle etc
- Own the operational process for the team, enabling out of hours incidents to be resolved quickly and with minimum downtime
- Comfortable writing tools and other software with any language but especially Java, Python or Ruby
- The Platform Engineer should have a good understanding of network security, Firewalls, ACL's and IDS
- Knowledge of user management systems integration eg AD, LDAP, O