Senior Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Travel expenses to client site

Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashi)

Job summary

Trust In SODA is recruiting Senior/Lead Platform Engineers to join a major DevOps transformation for a UK government project. You will help support, optimise and scale a Kubernetes-based platform with extensive IaC, CI/CD and observability workloads.

You will become certified and grow with a company that values progression, offering hybrid working and client-site travel as part of the role.

Qualifications

• IaC, Terraform and Ansible expertise required.
• Solid CI/CD knowledge including GitOps, Github Actions and Jenkins.
• Strong observability skills with OTel and monitoring tools like Dynatrace/Grafana.

Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of the platform.
• Collaborate with government client to improve online services and UX.
• Lead and mentor on best DevOps practices and tooling adoption.

Skills

IaC concepts

CI/CD practices

Observability culture

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