Lead Platform Engineer

Location

Darlington, County Durham | United Kingdom

Job description

This role is available in seven UK locations and can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If your office location is London, you will be eligible to receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. Changes to these working arrangements are available in certain circumstances but must be agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role and can only be discussed with successful candidates. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.

Find out about life at DBT, our benefits and meet the team by watching our recruitment video, visiting our website or reading our blog!

About DBT DDaT

We are the Department for Business and Trade (DBT). We champion free trade, help British businesses unleash their potential, and create new investment opportunities. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) team develops and operates tools, services, and platforms such as great.gov.uk that enable the UK government to provide world leading support to businesses in the UK and overseas.

Work with us 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.

In your day-to-day role, you will:

• 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

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Salary

£72k - £88.8k per annum