Hybrid Platform Engineer

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About the role

  • Design and build self-service infrastructure and developer tooling to enhance engineering effectiveness.
  • Improve the developer experience by creating platform abstractions that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.
  • Enable teams to own and operate their services autonomously by continuously refining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
  • Improve system transparency for our teams by enhancing the observability stack using tools like CloudWatch, X-Ray and Grafana.
  • Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in the platform and plan with Senior Engineers for the solutions to be included in the roadmap.
  • Implement best practices for resiliency and reliability to ensure platform stability and reduce single points of failure.
  • Work together with the Information and Cyber Security teams to help embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and automation frameworks.
  • Work closely with Product Engineering teams to understand their pain points and proactively improve platform capabilities.
  • Partner with Senior Platform Engineers with a willingness to take initiative.
  • Promote open communication, cross-team collaboration, and a culture of experimentation.
  • Foster a culture of upward feedback that enables bidirectional growth.

Requirements

  • Experience in cloud platforms with a focus on building and maintaining platform services for developer enablement.
  • Strong IaC concepts and language agnostic automation skills.
  • Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms.
  • Experienced in designing, implementing CI/CD pipelines with an emphasis on deployment automation and reliability.
  • Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring best practices.
  • A collaborative and product-minded approach, focusing on enabling engineering teams.
  • Enjoy collaborating with engineers, security, and product teams while working in an Agile setup.
  • Good communication skills that make it easy to understand complex technical ideas.
  • A low ego working style that supports open collaboration and encourages everyone to share ideas.

Benefits

  • This is a truly hybrid role, offering engineers the flexibility to work from home while also providing opportunities to collaborate in person with the team when it adds value.
  • 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) each year, and enhanced family leave allowances.
  • Competitive salary & equity.
  • Your choice of the best laptop, running macOS.
  • The opportunity to get to know each other outside of work.
  • A chance to catch up and meet new colleagues weekly over informal office breakfasts, lunches, and dinners on OakNorth - or at our free barista bar every day.
  • We offer the cycle to work and EV scheme.

Job title

Platform Engineer

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Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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