Platform Engineer

Skills Required:

Minimum

• Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application.
• Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (e.g. Jenkins and GitHub Actions). - Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Essential

• Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions.
• Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.
• Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams including designers, product managers, and analysts.
• Hands on CloudFormation scripting, troubleshooting and debugging - Working knowledge of Chef, scripting and troubleshooting - Experience with Python scripting and troubleshooting - Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy scripting
• Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services
• Experience with AWS services EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.