Platform Engineer

Trust in SODA; Liverpool; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification scheme

Remote-first working

Travel to client site

10% pension

Job summary

Trust in SODA is seeking Senior and Lead Platform Engineers for a multi-year DevOps transformation with a major Government project. You will scale and support a Kubernetes platform running at scale, with IaC, CI/CD and observability in production.

We offer a Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp), 10% pension, travel expenses to client site, and remote-first working (onsite only on client request).

Qualifications

• Expert in IaC (Terraform, Ansible).
• Expert in CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins).
• Expert in Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana).

Responsibilities

• Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join the team to aid ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of the project.

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Github Actions

Jenkins

OTel

Dynatrace

Grafana

AWS

Hashicorp

CKA

Job description

Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool - hybrid

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400K Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)

What’s in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Travel expenses to client site
• Remote First Working (only onsite at client request)