Platform Automation Engineer

TN United Kingdom; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Platform Automation Engineer to enhance their cloud services in Bristol. This role is pivotal in their digital transformation journey, focusing on maintaining a highly scalable and reliable cloud platform. You will be part of a dynamic team that thrives on continuous improvement and agile practices. Enjoy the opportunity to work on diverse projects, from automation to infrastructure management, all while making a positive impact on people's lives. Join a company that values culture and offers a range of benefits, including share options and a good pension.

Benefits

15% bonus

Good pension

Share options

Private health

Menu of benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in cloud platform infrastructure services and operations.
• Strong scripting skills, primarily in Python.

Responsibilities

• Support and improve cloud platform infrastructure services.
• Ensure availability and reliability of the cloud platform.

Skills

Cloud experience (preferably AWS)

Command line experience with RHEL

Scripting (Java, Perl, Python, Shell)

Automating configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt)

Linux admin experience (preferably Red Hat)

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

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Our client, a fleet operator in the UK, is looking for a Platform Automation Engineer to join their team in Bristol. If interested, please see the details below:

Overview

This team is at the heart of their digital transformation strategy and is responsible for ensuring that the cloud platform is always available to meet the needs of their customers. Continuous improvement is a key ethos of the team and is organized into run and build squads, responsible for day-to-day monitoring/support and continuous improvement opportunities to enhance and optimize the services they offer. Both teams operate in a fully agile way (and rotated).

Why you would be interested:

• Technology for good – Have a genuine positive impact on people's lives
• Great culture, genuine people, and a brilliant manager
• Opportunity to work on lots of different projects (and alternate teams) e.g., POCs, Changes to K8s, Spinning up new DBs, self-service, automation, OSP Patching

Location:

Bristol | 3 days onsite

Salary:

£70,000 - £85,000 + 15% bonus + good pension + Share options + private health + menu of benefits

Key Responsibilities:

Support, maintain, and improve highly scalable and reliable cloud platform infrastructure services, alongside day-to-day operations of the Cloud Platform, and be accountable for its availability.

• Cloud experience, preferably AWS (Azure is OK)
• Command line experience with RHEL
• Comfortable scripting with one or more of the following: Java, Perl, Python, or Shell (they use Python most often)
• Automating configuration management (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt)
• Linux admin experience (preferably Red Hat) or similar

Nice to have (Not essential):

• Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code e.g., Terraform
• Experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes