Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, DevOps & Automation Leader

Hackajob Ltd; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to lead design of major components of a modern digital service platform, focusing on automation, build, deployment, and support.

You will collaborate with colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to deploy high-quality software, ensuring latest technologies are used to extract maximum user and business benefit while aligning with industry standards.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent verbal and written communication across technical and non-technical audiences.
• Significant expertise with configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and automation tools.
• Fluency in at least one of Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go or Groovy.
• Experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting significant digital service platform components.

Responsibilities

• Lead design of major components of a modern digital service platform, including automation, build, deployment and support.
• Collaborate with engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security to deploy high-quality software.
• Ensure latest technologies are used to maximise user and business value while following industry standards.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

System design

Technical decisions

CD processes

Security best practices

Problem debugging

Mentoring

MVP advocacy

DevOps culture

Education

Third level qualification in a related discipline

Cloud certifications (AWS/Azure)

Tools

AWS

Azure

Bash

PowerShell

Python

Git

Groovy

Cloud

DevOps

Security

PaaS

Job description

Kainos in the United Kingdom seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to lead design of major components of a modern digital service platform, focusing on automation, build, deployment, and support.

You will collaborate with colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to deploy high-quality software, ensuring latest technologies are used to extract maximum user and business benefit while aligning with industry standards.