Senior Platform Engineer

Department for Business and Trade; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A government organization in Cardiff seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance development tools and processes. You will work on projects like rolling out observability tools, streamlining deployments, and developing automation solutions. The role offers an opportunity to contribute directly to building a secure and performant hosting platform, impacting governmental digital services. Candidates should have strong experience in AWS, Azure, and related technologies.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS and Azure.
• Proficient in using infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with containerization technologies like Docker.

Responsibilities

• Roll out an observability tool for enhanced system monitoring.
• Streamline deployment processes to improve feature delivery speed.
• Develop CLI tools to automate developer tasks.

Skills

Amazon Web Services

Azure

Terraform

Docker

Python

PostgreSQL

Tools

AWS CodePipelines

AWS CodeBuild

ElasticSearch/OpenSearch

Elastic Container Service

Sentry

Redis/Elasticache

Job description

Overview

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.

Responsibilities & Projects

• Roll out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response.
• Streamline deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.
• Develop a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.
• Provide tools for development teams, including APM, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD pipelines.
• Advise product teams on service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and participate in negotiations.
• Help build and scale the global product platform and participate in an on-call rota with additional allowance.

Tools & Technologies

• 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

Disability Confident / Equal Opportunity

Disability Confident: A Disability Confident employer 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. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to .

Organisational Context

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 do this in three ways. Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly. Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements. Finally, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission. Weour successful migration of DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS to our new developer platform in AWS. Now, were 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.