Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashi

Uncapped Progressions

10% combined pension

Travel expenses to client site

Remote First Working

Job summary

Trust In SODA is partnering with a leading tech consultancy to roll out a multi-year DevOps transformation for a major UK government project. We seek Senior and Lead Platform Engineers with deep Kubernetes, IaC and CI/CD experience to support, optimise and scale the platform in a hybrid UK setting.

You will work across Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool, with remote-first options and onsite travel to client sites.

Qualifications

• Experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines in large-scale environments.
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes (K8s) at scale in production.
• Ability to design, implement and operate observability stacks (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana).

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Github Actions

Jenkins

Observability

Dynatrace

Grafana

OTel

Kubernetes

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Dynatrace

Grafana

OTel

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)

If you’re passionate about working with K8s at scale and keen to work on one of the country’s most high-profile digital transformations