Lead Platform Engineer

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

• Set the Platform Engineering Teams technical direction, working with the technology leadership team
• Provide technical leadership & guidance to the Platform Engineering team through coaching and mentoring
• Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice to develop the team's capability
• Identify and lead on modernization initiatives through continuous improvement
• Lead the build out of the new DBT Platform on AWS and migration of services from GOV.UK PaaS
• Give development teams the tools for their job, including infrastructure, APM, exception, log aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CD/CI pipelines
• Collaboratively develop the future hosting strategy
• Actively lead the support of service offerings (Account Management, Security, CI/CD, Automation, Containerization, Service Performance & cloud Infrastructure)
• Ensure security, stability, and capacity are embedded in services deployments
• Champion the adoption of emerging technology to automate tasks & deployments
• Solve complex issues using root cause analysis, progressing opportunities to improve reliability, security, capability of infrastructure, application, and site services

Our tech stack includes:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python?and Django framework 
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

Essential Skills and Experience

You will need to have demonstrable skills and experience of:

• Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services (preferred), Azure or Google Cloud Platform, and a knowledge of orchestration tools and developing infrastructure as code
• Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code
• Leadership of a technical team (managing workloads, setting direction, and liaising with colleagues to establish requirements and initiate work)
• Coaching and mentoring, identifying good practices, sharing experiences, and championing your team's agenda, acting as the voice of the team
• Deploying & managing CI/CD pipelines
• Identification of process optimization opportunities and leading teams to deliver service improvements
• Experience of information security, designing, quality-reviewing and quality-assurance solutions with security controls embedded
• Designing and reviewing systems, selecting appropriate design standards, methods and tools and ensure they are applied effectively

How to Apply

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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:

• Availability and capacity management
• Information security
• Modern standards approach
• Programming and build (software engineering)
• Prototyping
• Service support
• Systems design
• Systems integration
• User focus

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

We will assess you against the following Behaviours:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Developing Self and Others
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

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Salary

£72k - £88.8k per annum