Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer x2 - UK Wide
A leading consultancy is seeking a Senior Platform Engineers to drive automation and infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native transformation projects and orchestrate and lead scrums teams that leverage DevSecOps or SRE approaches. Starting Asap, paying 90K base annum. This role will require occasional travel to client sites located around the country and require the successful candidate to undergo SC Clearance.
Skills and experience

• You'll be a motivated tech professional with practical IT experience in cloud technologies, infrastructure and operations

• Knowledge of cloud-native tools, languages, and methods across a broad spectrum of technologies - demonstrating knowledge of 1 or 2 areas of specialism, eg, containers, CI/CD pipelines, and IaC.

• Willingness to contribute your ideas and opinion on the latest industry trends.

• Experience mentoring and training junior engineers

• Certified or working towards a Professional level cert with a Cloud Service provider - we're happy to support/fund you on this journey as part of your career development!

• Microservices platform knowledge will be value-add.

Your role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll get the opportunity to:

• Mentor teams and collaborate with others to find the best way to progress.

• Make Product Owners' visions into reality, transforming developers' experiences and enabling organisations to make the most from cloud-native technologies.

• Partner with strategy, enterprise architecture, and application colleagues across the company and drive cloud automation and Kubernetes projects.

• Attract, encourage, and develop our engineers, promoting the fun and excitement of leveraging the latest and best technology.

Your security clearance
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance.
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years, along with other criteria and requirements.
Throughout the recruitment process, you will be asked questions about your security clearance eligibility such as, but not limited to, country of residence and nationality.
Some posts are restricted to sole UK Nationals for security reasons; therefore, you may be asked about your citizenship in the application process.