Platform Engineer - Azure

Adecco; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Platform Engineer to join their innovative team. This role involves implementing and maintaining platforms and services tailored to meet business needs. You'll collaborate with clients on digital strategies, ensuring best practices are followed. Your contributions will not only enhance internal projects but also support client bids, directly impacting business growth. If you're passionate about technology and eager to mentor junior talent while advancing your own skills, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Experience in Azure and public cloud providers is essential.
• Strong communication skills and SRE skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain platforms and services based on business requirements.
• Work with clients on digital IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions.

Skills

Agile methodologies

DevOps practices

Jira

Azure DevOps

AWS

Google Cloud

Jenkins

Bash

PowerShell

Ansible

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Java

C#

TypeScript

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

CircleCI

GitHub Actions

Ansible

Terraform

CloudFormation

ARM

Pulumi

Job description

A leading consultancy is seeking a Platform Engineer with experience in Azure to implement and maintain platforms and services based on the business requirements, constraints and strategies. Starting ASAP, paying between 70-80k base annum.

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: UK Wide

Your role:

• Actively working with our clients on digital IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solution strategies, designs, and delivery programmes, transforming their business by delivering solutions and methodologies following best practice.
• In time you will be able to create, maintain and enhance standards for delivery for business functionality, as well as developing, maintaining, and enhancing design standards and patterns for infrastructure and system components.
• Applying technical innovation with contribution towards internal projects and client bids in order to win new business.
• Contribute towards the business units' strategy directly through your own personal growth, alongside coaching and mentoring of our junior talent.

Skills and experience required:

• Working in Agile or DevOps teams
• Using agile project management tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps
• Public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI or Github Actions
• Scripting languages such as Bash and PowerShell
• Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt
• Infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi
• Building secure applications and infrastructure
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey and understand complex technical concepts clearly and concisely
• SRE skills including observability and telemetry monitoring
• HashiCorp Suite (Packer, Terraform, Vault, Vagrant, Consul)
• Containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift & Helm
• Programming skills using languages such as Python, Go, Java, C# and Typescript.

Security clearance: To successfully join our client's team, it is essential to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. This requires continuous residency in the UK for the past 5 years, among other eligibility criteria. Please be prepared to answer questions regarding your security clearance during the recruitment process.