Platform Engineer

ITV Consumer Limited 2024; City of Westminster; Presencial; GBP 70 000 - 100 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Generous holiday allowance

Annual bonus opportunity

Competitive pension contribution

Save as you earn - ITV shares

Wellbeing days

Resumo da oferta

ITV Consumer Limited 2024 is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer embedded in the Content Supply and Delivery and Common Platform teams. The role focuses on implementing scalable, secure cloud infrastructure, automation, and collaboration across London and Leeds teams.

You will work with Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions) while helping shape future platform designs and upgrades with a strong emphasis on best practices and cost efficiency.

Qualificações

• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and IaC tooling.
• Experience with Kubernetes deployments and container orchestration.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and related tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Strong collaboration across teams and effective design/code review skills.

Responsabilidades

• Implementing IaC with Terraform and enhancing the Common Platform.
• Support CS&D upgrades, deployments, and production issue resolution.
• Reviewing PRs to deploy infrastructure and manage access permissions.
• Maintain infrastructure for CS&D and Common Platform, e.g., Jenkins.
• Lead upgrades of Kubernetes deployments in AWS and plan future architectures.
• Share best practices and contribute improvements within the platform team.
• Apply secure cloud practices for scalable, high-performance infra.
• Handle monitoring, alerts, and production incident responses.

Conhecimentos

Kubernetes

Terraform

Linux

Agile delivery

Communication

Ferramentas

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Helm

Descrição da oferta de emprego

The team As a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Common Platform you are part of two teams, firstly embedded in a team within our Content Supply and Delivery (CS&D) business area working out of our London office with this team spread between Leeds and London. The Content Supply and Delivery team is focused on the great content at ITV and how new and existing content is added to our catalogue, and supplied and distributed from ITV Studios throughout the industry. You will also be part of the wider Common Platform team, ensuring that best practice, capabilities and tooling are shared across the embedded Platform Engineers. As a Platform Engineer you will have the support of this wider team, including platform engineers within various areas of the ITV business. The Common Platform takes the best of open source, cloud native and SaaS tooling, and packages it in highly automated, easy to deploy template architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns. The embedded engineer is responsible for supporting the team they are embedded into with the design and implementation of the team's infrastructure use cases, upgrades to the platform, troubleshooting problems and coaching your software developer colleagues in their use of AWS. The role

Key responsibilities

• Implementing IaC with Terraform and utilising functions of the Common Platform
• Working within CS&D to prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery and supporting engineers with deployment and production issues
• Reviewing and approving pull requests from engineers in CS&D to support deployment of new infrastructure, permission changes and access
• Maintaining and supporting infrastructure for CS&D including the Common Platform Infrastructure e.g. Jenkins
• Managing upgrades of the Kubernetes deployments in AWS
• Defining and designing the infrastructure for the future - whether this be for a new application or re-design of an existing application
• Sharing best practice within the Common Platform team and contributing back ideas, improvements and designs
• Knowledge and proven experience of secure cloud practices, and building highly performance and scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
• Knowledge and proven experience of Infrastructure as Code technologies (ideally Terraform) and using and implementing version control strategies with these technologies
• Knowledge and proven experience of containerisation and deploying container workloads, ideally on Kubernetes
• Knowledge and proven experience with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration patterns and platforms e.g. Jenkins, GitHub actions etc
• Knowledge and proven experience with monitoring and alerting tools
• Knowledge and proven experience responding to production incidents to diagnose and resolve issues related to the infrastructure supporting the services

Other things we're looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge and proven experience in cloud cost optimisation and balancing this with resilient infrastructure needs
• Knowledge and proven experience with in depth knowledge of Linux (Centos, Amazon Linux 2)
• Knowledge and experience working within an Agile delivery methodology
• Strong communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback, and receive constructive feedback for improvements (particularly an ability to show constructive design and code collaboration e.g. PR reviews)
• Passionate to work within a team structure and build relationships with multiple teams (Embedded team and Common Platform)
• Able to travel to London twice a week to collaborate with the wider Common Platform team and your embedded team in London
• Experience and knowledge of Kubernetes and management tools such as helm
• Flexible working with a range of options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus you can buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy life

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