Lead Platform Engineer

Connells Group; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Lead Platform Engineer, where you'll be pivotal in enhancing the ConnellsX Platform. This role emphasizes a customer-centric approach, leveraging your expertise in Terraform and Microsoft Azure to drive automation and efficiency. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the platform's success while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation. If you're passionate about cloud technologies and eager to lead a diverse team, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of Terraform and Azure Terraform provider.
• Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the ConnellsX Platform with a customer-focused approach.
• Lead engineering teams in automating and optimizing platform operations.

Skills

Terraform

Microsoft Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Git workflows

Cloud networking concepts

Security best practices

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

The Lead Platform Engineer is responsible for building and enhancing the ConnellsX Platform. Your success and that of the platform's is closely coupled to the success of your customer - the engineering teams running their services on it. Your customer focus and data-informed approach drives your day-to-day and strategic decision making.

You will be a hands-on and customer focused engineering servant-leader. You will be comfortable moving across orchestration, automation, pipelines, cloud services, observability and security domains (even if you are not an expert in them all). A non-negotiable is experience and familiarity with Microsoft Azure.

You will play your part in operating the platform aligned to our approach of "you build it, you run it" with multi-disciplinary teams.

You will be coding daily and be expected to scale yourself through others. You will bring the expertise of Platform Engineering to Connells, upskilling staff and hiring into gaps. A goal of the platform is to scale through automation, so the team is expected to be lean with a handful of matrix managed engineers with a diversity of skills.

Working with your colleagues in site reliability, onboarding, architecture and delivery and directed by the overall Platform Lead, you will be an essential engineering leader helping make this critical platform hosting all of Connells digital journeys, a success.

We are looking for someone who has:

• Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax, modules, state management, workspaces, and backend configuration
• Deep understanding of Azure Terraform provider capabilities and limitations
• Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Understanding of ARM templates and resource management
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App Services, etc.)
• Experience with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, and security best practices
• Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, pull requests)
• Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash for automation tasks
• Previous experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Understanding of cloud networking concepts (VNets, subnets, NSGs, etc.)
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments
• Experience optimising cloud spend and resource efficiency

Connells Group UK is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Connells Group we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't fit perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

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