Senior Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; Telford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Certification scheme

Progression opportunities

Pension 10%

Travel to client site

Hybrid work

Job summary

Trust In SODA, partnering with a leading tech consultancy, is hiring Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to support a multi-year DevOps transformation for a UK Government online platform. You will optimise and scale infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, GitOps and monitoring with OTel, Dynatrace and Grafana.

Hybrid working in the UK, travel to client site, and a certification path (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp) are on offer.

Qualifications

• Experience with Terraform and Ansible for infrastructure as code.
• Proficient in building CI/CD pipelines with GitOps, GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
• Strong understanding of observability tools and monitoring (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana).

Skills

IaC expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

OTel

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400 Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)

What’s in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Travel expenses to client site
• Hybrid Working