Platform Engineer - SaaS Provider

Platform Engineer - SaaS Provider.

The Company:
Specialist technology provider, providing Real Time solutions, utilising leading-edge technology, delivering transportation technology into complex operations. They have consistently innovated to create a best in the market, SaaS product, with over two decades of experience in their sector.

The Opportunity:
We are looking for an experienced, Platform Engineer to play a pivotal role in supporting their core products and associated systems, working in a hybrid role with occasional visits on-site, Ensuring the on-prem infrastructure and AWS cloud estate are ready and available to support the teams, digital services, and customers. The ideal candidate will have a proven commercial background in supporting technical infrastructures (Networks, Storage, Windows etc.), with current experience/ knowledge of working in DevOps/ Cloud (AWS/ Azure/ Linux), working alongside Development and/ or QA teams, supporting complex products and environment conditions.

The company offers Hybrid working with 1 day week in the office (East Midlands or Milton Keynes (whichever is best for you) .The role is split as 80% on-prem (with occasional trips to client sites) and 20% cloud-based (AWS/ Azure).

Core technical skills, responsibilities & attributes for the Platform Engineer role:

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, working with Development/ QA Teams, with a strong understanding of the development lifecycle (Sprints/ Scrum and/ or Agile etc).
• DevOps/ Cloud - CI/CD, Docker/ Kubernetes, Git (or similar), AWS (SysOps), Azure (Dev pipelines).
• MUST COME from a strong Infrastructure Engineering background, encompassing - Server configurations, cabinets, network components, switches & firewalls.
• Previous experience supporting Products/ Applications/ SaaS, will be highly desirable (nice to have- not essential).

• An in-depth (very much a hands on) technical role, with the personality able to build relationships, first class communicator who can manage their workload and has a strong attention to detail.
• Provision environments and services that are used by customers, development, engineering, and test teams. Assist in deploying product updates and improving customer experience.
• Systems Administration Support, Security; User management; Upgrades/Patching; Scripting / Process Automation e.g., Ansible; Monitoring and System Analytics, CI/CD, Environment/Infrastructure Management.
• Create, manage, and maintain the Infrastructure as Code for the project, deploy and update docker stacks to a docker swarm, ensuring Lab configurations.

The company offers a Hybrid working environment working from home and 1 day per week in either of their East Midlands or Milton Keynes office (whichever is best for you), with a base salary range of £55-60K, depending on experience and a fantastic benefits package including: 27 days annual leave in addition to public holidays, contributory pension, Private healthcare, Income protection, Life Assurance, tailored development and other flexible benefits.

Please apply now for a comprehensive specification on the position: Platform Engineer - SaaS Provider.

• Strong Infrastructure Engineering Experience encompassing - Server configurations, cabinets, network components, Switches & Firewalls (Minimum 6 years commercial experience).
• Linux administration.
• AWS
  CI/CD Tools
• Linux.
• Docker and Docker Swarm and/or Kubernetes.
• Azure DevOps Pipelines.

• An in-depth (very much a hands on) technical role, with the personality able to build relationships, first class communicator who can manage their workload and has a strong attention to detail.
• Provision environments and services that are used by customers, development, engineering, and test teams. Assist in deploying product updates and improving customer experience.
• Systems Administration Support, Security; User management; Upgrades/Patching; Scripting / Process Automation e.g., Ansible; Monitoring and System Analytics, CI/CD, Environment/Infrastructure Management.
• Create, manage, and maintain the Infrastructure as Code for the project, deploy and update docker stacks to a docker swarm, ensuring Lab configurations.

The company offers a Hybrid working environment working from home and 1 day per week in either of their East Midlands or Milton Keynes office (whichever is best for you), with a base salary range of £55-60K, depending on experience and a fantastic benefits package including: 27 days annual leave in addition to public holidays, contributory pension, Private healthcare, Income protection, Life Assurance, tailored development and other flexible benefits.

Please apply now for a comprehensive specification on the position: Infrastructure Engineer.