Platform Engineer

ENSEK; Nottingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

ENSEK recherche un Platform Engineer (Environnement Specialist) pour rejoindre son équipe à Nottingham. Dans ce rôle, vous serez responsable du provisionnement et de la gestion des environnements pour améliorer l'expérience des développeurs tout en soutenant les équipes des clients. Vous interagirez avec divers intervenants et devrez résoudre des problèmes tout en favorisant un environnement de travail positif.

Qualifications

• Expérience de codage (Python etc.).
• Capacité à travailler sous pression et à gérer plusieurs tâches.
• Expérience dans un environnement d'ingénierie rapide souhaitée.

Responsibilities

• Comprendre la configuration de l'environnement et construire un catalogue de manuels.
• Provisionner de nouveaux environnements en respectant les processus.
• Maintenir un inventaire détaillé de tous les environnements.

Skills

Communication

Résilience

Curiosité

Tools

Python

ADO

GIT

Job description

We are a technology business operating in the global energy sector.

ENSEK have become the go-to option for top energy suppliers across the globe. Why? Because our technology is a significant step change away from the legacy systems that have historically dominated the market. It's also massively cheaper to adopt the ENSEK solution, with no loss in customer service or standards.

But by far the biggest reason why ENSEK is the best choice in energy supplier software, is because of the people who work here and their endless enthusiasm, energy, and the way they support their colleagues. All our clients comment on what great people we have. Our people are our superpower.

That is where you come in.

ROLE SUMMARY

Our clients are energy suppliers, providing electricity and gas to businesses and homes, possibly including your own! The energy sector can be complex, and our clients often engage ENSEK for our expertise. Our Platform and SRE Tribe, where this role sits is ma de up of numerous squads including Platform, Developer Experience, SRE and QA. These are all cross - cutting enablement squads and work across ENSEK supporting the wider engineering effort. As a Platform Engineer (Environment Specialist) within the Platform and SRE tribe, you will immerse yourself in all thing's environment related supported by our SRE and Platform teams. This will include but not limited to provisioning new environments, de aling with requests to amend existing environments, decommissioning environments, maintaining an up - to - date inventory of environments and their current configurations, supporting requests for environment support and reporting cost and usage.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

The Platform Engineer (Environment Specialist) will be responsible for -

1. Understanding environment setup across ENSEK and the nuances that exists from tribe to tribe and building and maintaining a comprehensive catalogue of runbooks and guides

2. Provisioning new environments within agreed runbooks taking responsibility for ensuring appropriate sign off through to capturing detailed requirements and managing scheduling of tasks through to completion of the work, delivery and post - handover care

3. Responding to requests for additions to existing environments following due process

4. Maintaining an inventory of all environments to include detailed information of ownership, configuration, components, clusters etc

5. Reviewing current processes regularly with aim to improve current runbooks, improve developer experience and introduce automation where possible

6. Regularly reporting on environment spend with focus on identifying cost areas and variance

7. Troubleshooting and taking ownership of environment issues working with product tribe engineers and peers to resolve

8. Diarising regular reviews of existing environments to measure usage, stability and general housekeeping

9. Drive a positive culture of engagement and always presenting a "glass half full" attitude

10. Promoting and maintaining a positive, results orientated work environment, building partnerships and teamwork across ENSEK. To add value to the experience of our clients, colleagues and other relevant stakeholders through practicing and promoting the ENSEK values.

SOFT & TECHNICAL SKILLS

1. A desire to learn new skills and interest in self - development

2. Clear communicator, active listener and able to build trust

3. Experience of coding (Python etc)

4. Familiarity with ADO/GIT including running pipelines

5. Able to identify and address problems, make sound decisions and navigate ambiguity

6. Quick to understand the importance of business context and how the teams contribute to the company's success

7. Ability to build strong relationships with wide range of internal/external stakeholders (technical and non - technical), and to influence senior stakeholders to reach consensus to drive change

8. Resilient and perseverant, demonstrating a positive can - do and customer - focused attitude

9. Curious, staying up to date with industry developments, active in external communities

10. Organised, dependable, able to juggle multiple tasks and priorities and work well under pressure

11. Ability to work remotely with limited supervision, and to interact with remote and distributed teams

12. Proven experience working in a fast - paced engineering environment

13. Experience working in a regulated industry would be an advantage but not essential

Department Technology - Platform & Site Reliability Engineering Role Platform Engineer Locations Nottingham Remote status Hybrid