Platform Engineer

Sopra Steria Limited; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Salisbury is seeking a skilled DevOps professional to enhance their automation capabilities for a public sector client. This hybrid role involves working on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure, along with automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform. You'll be pivotal in defining technical requirements, providing support, and implementing Infrastructure as Code strategies. The position offers a salary up to £60,000 and flexible working arrangements promoting work-life balance.

Benefits

25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Generous flexible benefits fund

Qualifications

• Production experience working with Broadcom/VMware technologies in highly available enterprise scale environments.
• Working knowledge and some hands-on experience with automation tooling and scripting.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft and LINUX Operating Systems and TCP/IP networking.
• Strong understanding of networks and protocols and network security.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for all aspects of automation capabilities.
• Embed and enhance open-source and commercial tooling for internal use.
• Understand and deliver an Infrastructure as Code strategy.
• Provide technical support, mentoring, and fault resolution.

Skills

Hybrid and multi-cloud experience with Azure, AWS or OCI

Ansible

Terraform

Container technologies (Kubernetes, Tanzu)

Job description

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for all aspects of our automation capabilities.
• Embed and enhance open-source and commercial tooling for use internally to deliver enhanced capabilities to our customers.
• Understand and strive to deliver an Infrastructure as Code strategy.
• Assist with the definition of technical requirements for future capabilities.
• Provide technical support, mentoring and fault resolution to our support teams.
• Leverage and analyse operational data to inform decision making and support our service owners.
• Production experience working with Broadcom/VMware technologies in highly available enterprise scale environments.
• Working knowledge and some hands-on experience with automation tooling and scripting.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft and LINUX Operating Systems and TCP/IP networking.
• Strong understanding of networks and protocols and network security.

Qualifications

• It would be great if you had: Hybrid and multi-cloud experience with Azure, AWS or OCI
• Ansible, Terraform, Aria automation tooling
• Container technologies (Kubernetes, Tanzu)

About the role

Sopra Steria's Aerospace Defence and Security sector are currently on the lookout for individuals with a background in platform, infrastructure or DevOps for an exciting new project working within the MOD. You will be on the front line of designing and developing technical solutions that support a key client in the public sector. This role is an excellent platform for experienced individuals looking for opportunities to grow, learn and develop offering scope to work with industry standard technologies including Public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure and OCI), Automation and IaC tech (Ansible and Terraform) and containerisation.

Location and role details

This is a hybrid role based out of our office in Salisbury, you will be in the office 3 days a week on average. Due to the nature of the client, we are only able to progress with candidates eligible and willing to go through the Developed Vetting (DV) clearance process.

Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Location: Hybrid 3 days a week spent on site in Salisbury
Security Clearance Level: Eligible and willing to go through the DV clearance process
Internal Recruiter: Olly Walker
Salary: Up to £60,000
Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.