Platform Engineer I

CME Group; Belfast; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading derivatives marketplace in Belfast seeks a Platform Engineer to enhance developer productivity and security posture. The role focuses on building self-service capabilities leveraging automation and AI. Candidates should have experience in programming languages and demonstrate effective team collaboration. A background in tools like Jenkins and Ansible is preferred. This role offers an opportunity to impact global markets and work in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with a modern programming language.
• Proven experience working collaboratively in a team environment.
• Capacity to contribute to timely solutions.

Responsibilities

• Mentored by senior individuals to capture IT delivery process bottlenecks.
• Define future tool sets for continuous delivery.

Skills

Experience with Ruby, Perl, Python, Go, Scala, or Java

Team collaboration skills

Ability to provide effective solutions

Tools

Jenkins

Maven

Git

Ansible

CHEF

SQL

Job description

Overview

The Platform Engineering team is a collection of highly skilled individuals ranging from development to operations with a security first mindset who strive to push the boundaries of technology. We champion a DevSecOps culture and raise the bar on how and when we deploy applications to production. Our core principles are centered around automation, testing, quality, and immutability all via code. The role is responsible for building self-service capabilities that improve our security posture, productivity, and reduce time to market leveraging automation and AI at the core of these objectives. The individual collaborates with and rotationally supports teams across the organization to ensure applications are designed for Continuous Delivery (CD) and are well-architected for their targeted platform which can be on-premise or the cloud. If you are passionate about developer productivity, cloud native applications, and container orchestration, this job is for you!

Principal Accountabilities

The incumbent is mentored by senior individuals on the team to capture the flow and bottlenecks in the holistic IT delivery process and define future tool sets.

Skills and Software Requirements

Required

• Experience with a language such as Ruby, Perl, Python, Go, Scala, or Java
• Experience working in a team environment, proactively executing on tasks while meeting agreed delivery timelines
• Ability to contribute to effective and timely solutions

Preferred

• Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Git, Ansible, or CHEF
• Experience with [SPI]aaS?- Software-as-a-Service, Platform- as-a-Service, or Infrastructure-as- a-Service
• Experience with SQL

CME Group: Where Futures are Made

CME Group is the world's leading derivatives marketplace. But who we are goes deeper than that. Here, you can impact markets worldwide. Transform industries. And build a career by shaping tomorrow. We invest in your success and you own it - all while working alongside a team of leading experts who inspire you in ways big and small. Problem solvers, difference makers, trailblazers. Those are our people. And we're looking for more.

At CME Group, we embrace our employees' unique experiences and skills to ensure that everyone's perspectives are acknowledged and valued. As an equal-opportunity employer, we consider all potential employees without regard to any protected characteristic.

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