Senior Platform Engineer

Henry Schein One UK; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative tech company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help enhance their platform's reliability and security. This role involves working in a fast-paced environment, implementing best practices for CI/CD and observability, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless application deployment. The company values autonomy and creative problem-solving, providing a supportive culture that prioritizes customer success. If you are passionate about engineering excellence and eager to make a significant impact, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Health insurance

Professional development opportunities

Remote work options

Team-building events

Wellness programs

Work-life balance initiatives

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in software engineering with a focus on DevOps.
• Proven track record of working with AWS services and IAC practices.
• Experience in automating security compliance and improving application stability.

Responsibilities

• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines and observability.
• Lead initiatives to improve system reliability and performance.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless application deployment.

Skills

C#

Ruby

TypeScript

AWS Services

DevOps Practices

CI/CD Pipelines

Monitoring and Observability

Infrastructure as Code

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

AWS Solution Architect Certification

Tools

AWS CDK

Ansible

GitHub Actions

New Relic

Docker

Kubernetes

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About Us

At Henry Schein One UK, we are a tech company with a mission to redefine dental care, creating a future where personalised, AI-driven treatment and intelligent practice management come together to enhance patient care and build a thriving dental practice.

About Us

At Henry Schein One UK, we are a tech company with a mission to redefine dental care, creating a future where personalised, AI-driven treatment and intelligent practice management come together to enhance patient care and build a thriving dental practice.

We’re innovators, relentless in our pursuit of customer success and constantly pushing the boundaries of the possible to create world-class SaaS products. We solve real-world problems that affect millions of people around the world and are proud to have a positive impact on society.

Culture matters to us. Celebrated as one of the ‘Sunday Times UK's Best Places to Work’ companies, our culture as an inclusive and forward-thinking company means we are committed to creating an environment that values diversity and flexibility and promotes equal opportunities for everyone.

Product Development Culture

We are problem solvers, not ticket takers.

We champion creative problem-solving and value autonomy, trust, and impactful outcomes over rigid processes. Delivering improvements rapidly, we engage in iterative 6-week cycles, addressing user needs and enabling technical innovation - balancing technical debt, bugs, and team growth. We are a continuous delivery focused group, shipping changes to production 150+ times per month.

At our core is the customer. Every solution we deliver is crafted with customer success in mind, building relationships that go beyond transactions and ensuring that as team members, we all prioritise customer success in every aspect of our work. We build software that delivers value for our users and resist the urge to over-engineer our solutions. We let our users and the data tell us where we go next

You can learn more about our engineering culture manifesto here

Our Tech & Tools

• AWS, AWS Serverless, Azure
• AWS CDK for C#, SST
• ECS, Linux, Ansible, Packer
• New Relic, Insight Hub
  
  

Product Development Stacks:

• Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Ember.js, javascript
• NodeJS, TypeScript, Angular, TailwindCSS
• .NET 7, Blazor WebAssembly
• Puma, Sidekiq
• Postgres, Redis
• GitHub, AzureDevOps, Slite, Slack
  
  

How You'll Make An Impact

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer who thrives in a fast-paced, autonomous environment to impact our next level of platform engineering maturity. You'll innovate to keep our products' global platform reliable, secure and fast. You'll help enhance our system availability, observability, security and reliability whilst resolving issues before they impact our customers. You'll also play a role in the continued evolution of software delivery tooling and incident management capabilities, along with our "self-service" vision across Engineering.

About You

• You’re a senior engineer who moved from building software products to DevOps
• A self-starter who can self-manage projects under minimal supervision
• Someone who enjoys coaching/mentoring others in a team
• Experience working in scaleups > understands the balance of investment vs value
  
  

Inquisitive and Driven

You have a bias to action. You are driven to improve engineering effectiveness and developer experience, removing friction and empowering engineers through innovation and modern practices.

Optimistic and Courageous

You have an entrepreneurial approach, and you collaborate easily with third-party providers, engineering teams and business stakeholders to ensure you offer the best possible experience.

Self-motivated

You’re passionate about observability, availability and issue management. You enjoy solving problems and like to challenge yourself by quickly identifying and mitigating an issue before moving on to the next one

What You'll Do

• Implement best practices for CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and observability that supports our continuous delivery practices
• Lead initiatives to improve system reliability, performance, and security.
• Writing tooling to support our self-service automation portal to improve visibility for engineers
• Creating and maintaining innovative, automated solutions, tooling and alerting frameworks to improve the reliability of our production systems
• Proactively addressing application, platform and database performance as we scale to global regions (and supporting our product engineering teams to do the same)
• Collaborate cross-functionally with developers, product teams, and stakeholders to ensure seamless application deployment
• Building and maintaining developer tools that improve efficiency, reduce friction, and accelerate software delivery.
• Troubleshooting and resolving system issues proactively, always looking for opportunities to optimize and automate.
• Assisting with on-call rotations and processes
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation, onboarding materials, and training sessions to help engineers quickly adapt to tools and workflows.
• Educating, training and promoting our culture of ownership to help our engineering teams better understand the production impact of their changes
• Working closely with internal partners and teams to ensure that we ship software that meets security, SLA, and performance requirement
  
  

What You'll Bring With You

• Senior-level experience as a SW Engineer writing code not just scripts (ideally C#, Ruby or Typescript)
• Depth of experience across both development and operations
• A proven track record of working with a breadth of AWS services
• Credible knowledge of IAC practices with AWS CDK (or similar)
• Monitoring and observability experience, New Relic (or similar)
• Experience with automating security compliance
• Knowledge of improving application stability and performance
• Well-versed in containers; AWS ECS (preferred) or Kubernetes / Docker
• Strong experience in automating infrastructure, testing, and deployments using tools like Ansible, Chef, GitHub Actions, etc >>>> Desirable
• AWS Solution Architect certification
• Knowledge of large data sets and data warehousing capabilities
• Experience with AI tools and techniques to improve engineering effectiveness
  
  

Our Values

Community: Each person is as important as the next > Open communication > Diversity & inclusion

Caring: Corporate citizenship > Shared success

Career: Ethics > Recognise creativity & encourage > People are our greatest asset

Our Hiring Proces

We've made our process as simple as possible whilst also allowing you to meet multiple members of the team, giving us valuable viewpoints on your experience.

Expect an intro call with our TA team, a hiring manager interview and a technical interview. We aim to get you through our process in about 10 days.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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