Platform Engineer: DevOps Innovation & Automation

Better Days Recruitment Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A fast-growing energy technology company in Surrey is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance development processes using the Microsoft suite. The role requires solid experience in standardizing practices and adopting new technologies, along with mentoring junior staff. The candidate should possess scripting skills, configuration experience, and familiarity with tools like Git, Jira, and Azure DevOps Server. This position is pivotal in driving project success and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of four-six years solid experience as a Platform Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience of message queues (Rabit MQ).
• Experience in Infrastructure as code.
• Experienced in server-side scripting, automation, and batch processes.
• Highly organized with attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Enhance the software development process, platforms, and environments.
• Standardize development practices and tooling.
• Drive the adoption of new DevOps technologies.
• Automate data capture and reporting against agreed KPIs.
• Mentor junior members of staff.

Skills

Scripting experience in various languages

Configuration expertise

DevOps practices

Customer-focused approach

Organizational skills

Education

Degree educated

Tools

Git version control

Jira

Confluence

Azure DevOps Server

Teraform

PowerShell

Bash

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

Microsoft tech stack (C#, .Net, VB.Net, NuGet)

Job description

A fast-growing energy technology company in Surrey is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance development processes using the Microsoft suite. The role requires solid experience in standardizing practices and adopting new technologies, along with mentoring junior staff. The candidate should possess scripting skills, configuration experience, and familiarity with tools like Git, Jira, and Azure DevOps Server. This position is pivotal in driving project success and ensuring the delivery of high-quality solutions.