Platform Engineer ITV Careers

Deaf Unity; Greater London; Híbrido; GBP 70 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Deaf Unity in London offers a DevOps/Platform Engineer position within the Common Platform, combining work between CS&D in London and the wider platform team. The role focuses on automated IaC, cloud-native infrastructure, and scalable deployments using AWS, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

You will travel to London twice weekly to collaborate with embedded teams, review PRs, and maintain critical infrastructure like Jenkins. A strong background in CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response is required.

Qualificações

• Knowledge and proven experience of secure cloud practices and scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies (Terraform) and version control strategies.
• Experience with containerisation and deploying container workloads, ideally on Kubernetes.
• Experience with CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
• Experience responding to production incidents to diagnose and resolve infrastructure issues.

Responsabilidades

• Implement IaC with Terraform and utilise functions of the Common Platform.
• Work within CS&D to prioritise upgrades and support engineers with deployment and production issues.
• Review pull requests to support deployment of new infrastructure and access changes.
• Maintain and support infrastructure for CS&D including Jenkins and the Common Platform.
• Manage upgrades of Kubernetes deployments in AWS.
• Define and design infrastructure for future applications or redesigns.
• Share best practice within the Common Platform team and contribute improvements.

Conhecimentos

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Monitoring & alerts

Linux systems

Ferramentas

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Workplace: White City, London (Hybrid working – 2 days a week)

The team

As a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Common Platform you are part of two teams, firstly embedded in a team within our Content Supply and Delivery (CS&D) business area working out of our London office with this team spread between Leeds and London.

The Content Supply and Delivery team is focused on the great content at ITV and how new and existing content is added to our catalogue, and supplied and distributed from ITV Studios throughout the industry.

You will also be part of the wider Common Platform team, ensuring that best practice, capabilities and tooling are shared across the embedded Platform Engineers. As a Platform Engineer you will have the support of this wider team, including platform engineers within various areas of the ITV business. The Common Platform takes the best of open source, cloud native and SaaS tooling, and packages it in highly automated, easy to deploy template architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns.

The embedded engineer is responsible for supporting the team they are embedded into with the design and implementation of the team’s infrastructure use cases, upgrades to the platform, troubleshooting problems and coaching your software developer colleagues in their use of AWS.

The role

• Implementing IaC with Terraform and utilising functions of the Common Platform
• Working within CS&D to prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery and supporting engineers with deployment and production issues
• Reviewing and approving pull requests from engineers in CS&D to support deployment of new infrastructure, permission changes and access
• Maintaining and supporting infrastructure for CS&D including the Common Platform Infrastructure e.g. Jenkins
• Managing upgrades of the Kubernetes deployments in AWS
• Defining and designing the infrastructure for the future – whether this be for a new application or re-design of an existing application
• Sharing best practice within the Common Platform team and contributing back ideas, improvements and designs

Skills you’ll need (minimum criteria)

• Knowledge and proven experience of secure cloud practices, and building highly performance and scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
• Knowledge and proven experience of Infrastructure as Code technologies (ideally Terraform) and using and implementing version control strategies with these technologies
• Knowledge and proven experience of containerisation and deploying container workloads, ideally on Kubernetes
• Knowledge and proven experience with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration patterns and platforms e.g. Jenkins, GitHub actions etc
• Knowledge and proven experience with monitoring and alerting tools
• Knowledge and proven experience responding to production incidents to diagnose and resolve issues related to the infrastructure supporting the services

Other things we’re looking for (key criteria)

• Knowledge and proven experience in cloud cost optimisation and balancing this with resilient infrastructure needs
• Knowledge and proven experience with in depth knowledge of Linux (Centos, Amazon Linux 2)
• Knowledge and experience working within an Agile delivery methodology
• Strong communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback, and receive constructive feedback for improvements (particularly an ability to show constructive design and code collaboration e.g. PR reviews)
• Passionate to work within a team structure and build relationships with multiple teams (Embedded team and Common Platform)
• Able to travel to London twice a week to collaborate with the wider Common Platform team and your embedded team in London
• Experience and knowledge of Kubernetes and management tools such as helm