Lead Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; West of England; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification Scheme

Career progression

10% pension

Travel to client sites

Remote first

Job summary

Trust in SODA is partnering with a world-class tech consultancy to deliver a multi-year DevOps transformation for a top UK Government department. We are recruiting Senior, Lead and Managing Platform Engineers to help with support, optimisation and scaling of the project.

You'll specialise in IaC with Terraform and Ansible, CI/CD with GitOps, GitHub Actions and Jenkins, and Observability with OTel, Dynatrace and Grafana, working across London and client sites as needed.

Qualifications

• Expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform, Ansible) for automation and scalability.
• Strong CI/CD discipline including GitOps, GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Proficiency in observability tools (OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace, Grafana) for monitoring and insights.

Responsibilities

• Join as Senior, Lead or Managing Platform Engineer to help with ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of the project.
• Drive best practices in IaC, CI/CD and observability across production environments.
• Collaborate with government sector teams to deliver secure, reliable platform services.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

OTel

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

London, Woking, Worthing, Bristol, Birmingham, Telford, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Newcastle

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400 Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world's top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior, Lead & Managing Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)

What's in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Travel expenses to client site
• Remote First Working (only onsite at client request)