Lead Platform Engineer - Bournemouth

ZipRecruiter; Bournemouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading insurance company in Bournemouth as a Lead Platform Engineer. You'll be responsible for evolving a new digital platform, optimizing cloud infrastructure, and ensuring security compliance. This hybrid role offers an opportunity to work with advanced technologies and lead initiatives in a dynamic work environment. Experience with Salesforce and expertise in cloud technologies will be highly valued.

Qualifications

• Experience with Salesforce environments and CI/CD tools.
• Proven experience in cloud PaaS, particularly on Azure.
• Strong programming skills in C#, Python, and others.

Responsibilities

• Optimize Cloud Infrastructure including PaaS in Azure.
• Document existing processes and automate using developed software.
• Collaborate with security teams to implement policies efficiently.

Skills

Cloud PaaS

Programming

Security Policies

Containerization

Networking Protocols

Tools

Azure

Salesforce

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Lead Platform Engineer - Bournemouth
Hybrid working model - 2-3 days per week in the office

The Company: The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad.

The role: As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of evolving and building a new Digital Platform that is performant at scale, secure, compliant with internal and industry regulations, and meets availability requirements. You will also work on managing change through technology systems to ensure optimal release frequency, lead time for change, change failure rates, and mean time to resolve.

What you will be doing:

1. Document existing processes and automate them using software you develop and/or third-party tools.
2. Build, operate, maintain, and collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to optimize Cloud Infrastructure, including PaaS in Azure and SaaS components like Salesforce.
3. Work with product engineering teams on recommendations for development changes.
4. Liaise with internal service providers and product teams to improve speed and reliability of end-to-end solutions and CICD processes.
5. Collaborate with information security teams to implement security policies efficiently and flexibly.
6. Design, build, operate, monitor, and alert on technology for large, complex multi-site B2C and B2B applications.
7. Create comprehensive documentation and software actions to ensure repeatability.
8. Improve and automate operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, and workflows.
9. Trace issues across systems, working with developers to diagnose root causes.
10. Work with internal customers of SRE products (e.g., monitoring, alerting, lifecycle management).
11. Operate within agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban principles.

What you'll bring:

• Engineering expertise in Salesforce environments; experience with Copado for CI/CD is a plus.
• Proven experience with cloud PaaS, preferably Azure.
• Familiarity with Linux and shell scripting.
• Strong programming skills (C#, PowerShell, scripting, JavaScript, Python).
• Experience with infrastructure platforms and services (Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, Splunk).
• Knowledge of containerization systems (Kubernetes, Docker) is advantageous.
• Experience with Azure DevOps, multi-stage pipelines, and large-scale software management.
• Strong networking protocol knowledge (TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP/3, AMQP, streaming protocols).
• Cloud network design experience (VPNs, subnets, regions/zones) and related technologies (Auth0, APIM).
• Strong database knowledge (relational, graph, document models) and experience with IaC tools like Terraform.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and successful business.

Note: You must have a valid UK work visa to apply.