Platform Engineer

Better Days Recruitment Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing energy technology company in Surrey is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance development processes using the Microsoft suite. The role requires solid experience in standardizing practices and adopting new technologies, along with mentoring junior staff. The candidate should possess scripting skills, configuration experience, and familiarity with tools like Git, Jira, and Azure DevOps Server. This position is pivotal in driving project success and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four-six years solid experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience of message queues (Rabit MQ).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code.
• Experienced in server-side scripting, automation, and batch processes.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the software development process, platforms, and environments.
• Standardize development practices and tooling.
• Drive the adoption of new DevOps technologies.
• Automate data capture and reporting against agreed KPIs.
• Mentor junior members of staff.

Skills

Scripting experience in various languages

Configuration expertise

DevOps practices

Customer-focused approach

Organizational skills

Education

Degree educated

Tools

Git version control

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps Server

Teraform

PowerShell

Bash

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Microsoft tech stack (C#, .Net, VB.Net, NuGet)

Job description

Overview

A new permanent opportunity to join a fast growing, successful energy, technology and data organisation as a Platform Engineer.

The role, located in Surrey is to enhance the software development process, platforms and environments all running on the Microsoft suite. Working across and with the development, testing and infrastructure teams to deliver high quality solutions and services across the business.

Responsibilities

You will have solid experience at a mid-senior level in standardising development practices and tooling to establish frameworks wherever possible. Keeping ahead of best practices in Platform Engineer and to challenge and have an opinion. Elevate new DevOps technologies and to drive their adoption across the software engineering teams. Automate data capture and reporting against agreed KPIs. Document to-be processes and facilitate their adoption. Support the software testing function in creating and refreshing data in test environments. Mentoring of junior members of staff and deputising for the team leader as and when required.

Qualifications/Skills

You will be comfortable with scripting in a variety of languages and experienced with configuration and have come from a development background. Happy and confident to recommend standards and helping to adopt best practices along with reviewing of new technologies.

• Minimum of four-six years solid experience as a Platform Engineer or within as similar role is essential
• Degree educated
• Strong experience of configuration and scripting
• Experience from a Development background
• Experience of message queues (Rabit MQ)
• Infrastructure as code experience (Teraform)
• Server-side scripting, automation and batch processes - PowerShell and Bash are essential
• Experience of Git version control and branching strategies
• Observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace or a similar tool set are essential
• Administration and configuration of development management tools (Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps Server)
• Experience of the Microsoft tech stack for development (C#,.Net, VB.Net, NuGet).
• Highly organised with a high attention for detail
• Strive to get things right first time
• Demonstrate a customer focused approach
• Professional, confident and calm even in challenging situations
• Strive to meet objectives and improve performance
• Supportive and helpful team player
• Articulate, professional with clear verbal and written communication skills