Senior Platform Engineer

P2P; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in London is seeking an experienced cloud engineer to focus on deploying and managing AWS cloud services and Kubernetes infrastructure. The ideal candidate will possess strong automation skills, a sound understanding of Linux systems, and excellent communication abilities. This role will involve collaboration across various teams and adapting to the financial sector's requirements, ensuring the delivery of robust and highly available platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and Linux systems essential.
• Strong skills in automation and configuration management needed.
• A great understanding of core AWS services and containers required.

Responsibilities

• Deploying and managing AWS cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet project needs.
• Triage production issues and maintain high quality best practices.

Skills

AWS cloud services

Kubernetes

Linux-based systems

Terraform

Ansible

Production triaging

Automation and configuration management

Communication skills

Job description

MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ROLE:

• Deep understanding of core AWS cloud services including networking, storage solutions, load balancing, containers, messaging, serverless architectures, and monitoring/logging.
• Deploying and supporting production Kubernetes(EKS) clusters through their growth
• Strong knowledge of Linux-based systems (RHEL/Debian-based)
• Design, implement, and manage cloud infrastructure leveraging Terraform
• Growing our configuration management codebase with Ansible
• Experience triaging Production issues in either a financial or Internet-facing deployments
• Collaborating cross-functionally with development, trading teams, and other internal stakeholders to understand custom requirements and translate custom solutions into infrastructure solutions.
• Maintains and strives for a high level of quality and best practices, but understands when to make pragmatic, good-enough decisions.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES (e. g. shifts, travel overseas, hours):

• Some weekend and on-call work will also be necessary
• Overseas travel may be required on occasion for team gatherings

PERSON SPECIFICATION

WORK EXPERIENCE/BACKGROUND:

Essential

Desirable:

• Track record of successful end-to-end project delivery from conception to production deployment.
• Experience collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams including developers, business stakeholders, and senior management.
• Triaging production issues under pressure

• Proven experience delivering robust, highly available platforms for financial trading or major internet-facing applications.
• Worked in hybrid environments (AWS and on prem infrastructure)
• Experience of working in a financial background

TECHNICAL SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Essential

Desirable:

• A great understanding of most of the core AWS services.
• Building and using containers in production
• Understands the core concepts around how a applications communicate when using service meshes
• Strong skills in automation, configuration management, and infrastructure as code.
• Great written and oral communication skills.

• Strong with both Cloud and On-prem infrastructure (physical servers, BIOS, RAID arrays, NICs)
• Understanding the feature sets of the newer AWS services
• A security-mindset with a sane balance of wide-open vs overly conservative

COMPETENCIES/OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

Self-propelled individual that can work under their own initiative with minimal supervision

Take ownership of issues and follow through with them until resolution

Excellent written and verbal communication

Teamwork and interpersonal skills

A willingness to learn and keep up to date with technologies