Platform Engineer

Motability Operations; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A unique mobility organization in London seeks a professional to enhance its infrastructure platform. You will support product strategies, assist in design efficiencies, and foster collaboration in an agile team environment. The ideal candidate has strong AWS and Terraform experience, along with scripting skills in Bash or Python. This role includes a competitive package and offers flexible hybrid working conditions.

Benefits

Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus

15% non-contributory pension

28 days annual leave

Free fresh fruit and snacks

1 day for volunteering

Funded Private Medical Insurance

Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary

Employee Discount Scheme

Generous family leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in a collaborative and agile work environment.
• Ability to improve user experience by leveraging automation.
• Stay updated with industry trends to enhance the platform.

Responsibilities

• Support and provide input to commission a product.
• Assist with design solutions for business efficiencies.
• Create a product roadmap aligned with business goals.

Skills

Experience working with AWS

Experience working with Terraform

Strong command line experience with Linux

Proficient at scripting with Bash or Python

Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code

Proficient knowledge in Agile methodologies

Experience with Internal Developer Platforms

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

Job description

About The Role

You will be part of a dynamic and collaborative team responsible for maintaining and
optimizing our critical Infrastructure platform's. You will work closely with platform engineers, security teams, and other stakeholders to ensure the platform meets the needs of our business.

Strategy and development

• Support and provide input to help commission a clear and compelling product.
• Assist with design solutions that bring efficiencies to the business.
• Assist with the creation of a comprehensive product roadmap that aligns with business goals and customer needs. Prioritise features and initiatives based on strategic value.

Platform development

• Work closely with our colleague to understand the requirements. Foster a collaborative and agile work environment.
• Explore methods to improve user experience by leveraging self-service and automation.
• Identify inefficiencies and remediate with a focus on the thinnest viable model.
• Stay up to date with industry trends and explore new technologies to enhance the platform.

About You

Minimum criteria

• Experience working with AWS (eg VPC, RDS, API Gateway, SES, Route53)
• Experience working with Terraform
• Strong command line experience with Linux (minimum of 2 years)
• Proficient at scripting with one or more of the following: Bash or Python
• Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code e.g. Terraform
• Proficient knowledge in Agile methodologies, particularly Scrum or Kanban
• Any experience with Internal Developer Platforms is beneficial
• Any experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry-free mobility solutions to over 860,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on-site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, the benefits you can expect are:

• Competitive reward package including an annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non-contributory pension (9% non-contributory pension during probation period)
• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Free fresh fruit and snacks in the office
• 1 day for volunteering
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme and Cycle to Work Scheme
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you a peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• Voluntary benefits: charitable giving, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, health and cancer screenings for you and your partner, discounted gym memberships and season ticket loans
• Employee Discount Scheme with an app to save on the go
• Free access to healthcare apps such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP and volunteering app on Hand for all employees
• Generous family leave policies

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and where they're rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part-time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.