Lead Platform Engineer

Kainos; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos is seeking a Lead Platform Engineer (Consultant) to lead teams in designing, automating, building and optimising modern digital service platforms. You’ll mentor colleagues, collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to deliver high-quality solutions.

You’ll champion DevOps practices, apply AWS and Kubernetes knowledge, and drive reliability through SRE tooling, monitoring and automation.

Qualifications

• Experience leading teams to design and operate modern digital service platforms.
• Strong AWS and Kubernetes experience with modern DevOps practices.
• SC Clearance or ability to obtain clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to design, automate, build, manage and optimise platforms in production.
• Mentor colleagues, share knowledge and foster a DevOps culture.
• Interact with customers and stakeholders to align solutions with needs.
• Drive reliability, monitoring, testing and continuous improvement.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Team mentoring

Effective communication

SC Clearance

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes CKAD

Job description

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Main purpose of the role & responsibilities in the business:

As a Lead Platform Engineer (Consultant) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading teams to design, automate, build, manage and optimise modern digital service platforms. It’s a fast-paced environment and you’ll be trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions. You’ll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with colleagues that will help you to learn, develop and grow. As the technical leader in the team, you will also interact with customers, share knowledge and mentor those around you.

Your key responsibilities will include:

Working as part of a team

You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and deploy software of the highest quality; including the operation and continuous improvement of underlying platform services.

Using technology for positive impact

You’ll ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately and aligned with industry best practices for maximum user and business benefit.

Share your knowledge

As a respected technologist within Kainos, you’ll begin broadcasting your opinions. You’ll be supported to actively share knowledge both internally through communities of practice and more widely in industry.

Becoming a Role Model

You’ll support your colleagues and foster a DevOps culture in all that you do by embodying the Kainos values. You’ll be a person your colleagues look up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent and justified. You’ll be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are successful.

Pushing the boundaries

Through exposure to technology you may develop specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.

Providing Technical Leadership

You’ll provide direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together on delivery and support projects.

Putting people first & developing others

You’ll manage, coach and develop a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development.

Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and clearly communicate technical design (or significant portions thereof) in conversation, documentation and presentation to a technical and non-technical audience.

We all work in teams here in Kainos – You’ll need a proven experience of team leadership and supporting a DevOps culture in delivering and/or supporting complex projects.

The role requires SC Clearance.

Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and/or operating, enhancing and improving reliability of modern digital service platform in production environments.

Using the latest Continuous Delivery and automation techniques for releasing operationally ready software to production, including platform orchestration through the use of multiple configuration management tools

Demonstrable experience in:

Building and/or supporting modern digital service platforms to include architecture, design, estimation, planning and iteration on MVP using a modern agile approach.

Championing best practice use of Site Reliability Engineering tooling, techniques and processes to manage and improve existing platform services. E.g. monitoring, platform modernisation and cost optimisation.

Use of AWS including SaaS or PaaS offerings to solve business problems.

Obtained certification with a public cloud provider (AWS).

Obtained certification relating to a particular area of specialisation e.g. Kubernetes CKAD.