Platform Engineer

Experis - ManpowerGroup; Croydon; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

An experienced Platform Engineer - DevOps is sought for a 2-month contract in Croydon. The role involves supporting Agile teams, advising on best practices, and ensuring strong delivery according to an established product roadmap. Successful candidates will have a strong background in software development and systems integration, with documented experience in Agile methodologies.

Qualifications

• Experience in Agile environments.
• Delivery against a Product Roadmap.
• Development of products and systems.

Responsibilities

• Support teams in mapping stories to platforms and deploy secure services.
• Develop hardened base containers and advise on delivery risks.
• Drive new tools adoption and refine support processes.

Skills

Agile Methods

Software Development

Systems Integration

Data Management

Application Support

Job description

Platform Engineer - Devops

Length: 2 months

Location: Croydon

Rate: £560 per day via umbrella

***CANDIDATES MUST HOLD ACTIVE SC Clearance TO BE CONSIDERED***

Job Description:
* Supporting teams in mapping their stories to the available platforms, helping effectively build and deploy secure services.
* Undertaking skilled platform build/support activities, such as developing hardened base containers
* Spotting instances where teams are not using best practice; advising around delivery risks
* Support other engineers and teams in service topology and discovery; helping to
define QA and deployment pipelines
* Driving adoption of new tools so teams they can improve their integration approaches; developing new or improved support processes for users
* Ensuring Delivery in support of the already established product roadmap and ensuring new products are transitioned seamlessly into service.

Essential Skills

The successful candidate must display a passion for IAM with the following skills or experience in:

* Candidates should have experience of Agile, ways of working or be familiar with working within an Agile environment.
* Have experience of delivering against a Product Roadmap
* Display previous experience at developing products and systems

The essential skills listed above are reflective of the Home Office Government Digital and Data Profession Career Framework (based on the industry standard SFIA framework- Use the levels of responsibility to understand what would be expected for each technical skill listed). Please see below for the relevant skills for your role:

Development and Implementation
* Systems Development
o Software design (SWDN) - Level 5
o Programming/software development (PROG) - Level 4
o Testing (TEST) - Level 3
o Systems integration and build (SINT) - Level 5
* Data and Analytics
o Data management?(DATM) - Level?4

Delivery and Operation
* Technology Management
o Application support (ASUP) - Level 4

Desirable Skills
Ideally you will also have the following skills or some experience in:

* Successful candidates will ideally have previous IAM systems experience
* Be Agile certified
* Be able to display excellent communication skills
* Provide evidence of strong reporting skills