Senior Platform Engineer

Department for Business and Trade; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A UK government department is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the future of digital delivery. The role focuses on building a secure and feature-rich hosting environment using AWS and Azure. Applicants should have experience in CI/CD tools and application performance monitoring, with a chance to influence digital service operations across government. An inclusive employer, they support applicants with disabilities.

Benefits

Disability Confident employer

Impact on national digital services

Qualifications

• Proven experience with AWS and Azure platforms.
• Strong knowledge in CI/CD processes and tools.
• Experience in application performance monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a performant, secure hosting environment.
• Enhance system monitoring and incident response.
• Develop tools to boost developer productivity.

Skills

Amazon Web Services

AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild

Terraform & AWS Copilot

Python and Django framework

Docker

PostgreSQL

Tools

Elastic Container Service (ECS)

ElasticSearch/OpenSearch

Sentry

Redis/Elasticache

Job description

We've successfully completed the migration of DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS to our new developer platform in AWS. Now, we're entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT? We're looking for Platform Engineers to help us build the most performant, secure, and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre.

This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital services are built and run across government. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You'll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance. Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

You will be using:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country.

We are a Disability Confident employer. As a Disability Confident employer, we will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer.