Platform Engineer

Lorien; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the UK betting industry seeks a Platform Engineer to enhance AWS cloud capabilities. In this role, you will be responsible for automating processes, integrating CI/CD practices, and collaborating with product teams, thereby contributing to high-profile projects. This position offers growth opportunities within the DevOps sphere.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years' exposure to AWS services.
• Experience with Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong skills in Kubernetes and CI/CD.

Responsibilities

• Enable cloud scalability within AWS by building new features.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins.
• Ensure time and quality efficiency in deployments.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS services

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting (Bash or Python)

Configuration management (e.g., Ansible)

Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk)

Job description

Twice a week in Central Manchester

Lorien Global are working with one of the largest independent bookmakers in the UK. As the business continue their development they are in need of a Platform Engineer to aid the Platform Team with the general day-to-day running of operations.

My Client, recently migrated some of their applications into AWS and are planning to organise this for other businesses across the Group as such is a great opportunity for you to be involved with exciting projects.

Responsibilities:

• Enabling cloud scalability within AWS, by maintaining and building new features.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines using Jenkins.
• Ensuring deployment and releases are time efficient and also quality efficient. Working with testing, software development and product teams.
• Heavily involved in Continuous integration, automation, scripting, Infrastructure as Code, and Containerisation.

Skills:

• Strong skills in Kubernetes.
• Strong exposure to AWS services such as EC2, VPC, Route53, Auto scaling groups, CloudWatch, IAM (2-3 years).
• Experience with configuration management tools such as ansible.
• Strong skills in building infrastructure using either Terraform or CloudFormation
• Strong experience of building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using the likes of GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, CodeBuild etc.
• Familiarity with scripting (Bash or Python).
• Monitoring and alerting tools - Prometheus, Grafana or Splunk, ELK.

We're looking for someone who wants to progress their career into the DevOps arena. Submit your CV now to be considered.

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Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.