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Lead Platform Engineer


Department for Business & Trade


Location

Salford, Greater Manchester | United Kingdom


Job description

Salary: £72,000 to £88,800 (including allowances) London £75,100 to £88,800, National £72,000 to £86,820

We create digital services, data tools and technology for businesses to prosper around the world. Have a look at our video - click apply to see how!

Our Digital, Data and Technology team develops and operates tools, services and platforms that enable the UK government to provide world'leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas.

You'll get to constantly push boundaries in an environment free of heavy legacy, driven by curiosity, social purpose, diversity of thought, entrepreneurship and the aspiration to offer an incredible experience to all our users.

Job Description

As our Lead Platform Engineer, you will lead a team of Site Reliability Engineers/Platform Engineers who are committed to delivering excellent services and continual improvement. You will drive adaption of best practices and be responsible for managing DBT's new platform hosting. You will influence our future hosting strategy, helping to develop the team's roadmap of work and lead the support of several services offerings including CI/CD, Account Management, Containerisation, Network Connectivity, Cloud Cost Optimisation, Service Performance and Availability. 

Working with development teams to create reusable components, enabling service delivery at pace, you will automate the oversight of systems at scale, covering a hybrid cloud environment, including but not limited to AWS, GovUK PaaS, & Azure. You will participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.  

Responsibilities

Our tech stack includes:

Essential Skills and Experience

You will need to have demonstrable skills and experience of:

How to Apply

Click apply.

The Department for Business and Trade embraces and values diversity in all forms. We welcome and pride ourselves on the positive impact diversity has on the work we do, and we promote equality of opportunity throughout the organisation. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. Click through to apply and find out more.

Assessment

We'll assess you against these Technical Skills and Behaviours during the selection process.

We will assess you against the following Technical Skills:

Detailed explanations of each Technical Skill can be found on the DDaT Framework.

We will assess you against the following Behaviours:


Job tags

Permanent employmentOverseasHybrid workRotating shift


Salary

£72k - £88.8k per annum

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