Lead Platform Engineer

at  Everflow

WHO WE ARE

Join Everflow, the leading technology-led utilities company revolutionizing the industry with environmentally friendly water supply and waste collection services for UK SMEs.
As a market leader in software innovation and carbon offsetting, we simplify utilities for our customers, enabling them to focus on business growth. Our exponential growth has earned us recognition as one of Europe’s fastest-growing companies, and we value our employees’ contributions.
We offer hybrid working, private healthcare, flexible working hours, 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the option of buying / selling extra days. We also offer one day, every two weeks for you to take time for your personal development.
The key to our success is our people and we like to reward everyone for their efforts. We have afternoon drinks on a Friday, free monthly breakfasts and a generous incentive scheme that gives employees a chance to earn rewards.
For those who like to come into the office we have Friday afternoon drinks, free breakfasts plus a games room.

THE POSITION

We are seeking a strategic thinking and collaborative Lead Platform Engineer. This is a leadership role where you will display and be our values as you will be responsible for a dedicated platform engineering team and represent Technology across the business.
While being responsible for the design and implementation of a secure platform strategy, you will also be responsible for supplier relationship management while assisting to forecast and monitor budgeted costs.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about communication and collaboration, continual improvement and will possess a ‘can do’ approach to their work.
You will have an automation-first approach to delivery, which considers security at every layer, and be able to design efficient cloud-based solutions.
We are a Microsoft-house with a focus on being cloud agnostic through evolution in our technology and tooling approaches. You will need to be familiar with Azure native, serverless, as well as Kubernetes. You will also be familiar with complex network infrastructure, which will consider governance and integration of modern identity in a secure hybrid-cloud scenario.
While your primary focus will be on Azure in the Cloud, if you have any Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge to help with our business continuity plans, this would be a good advantage.

• Responsible for a small platform engineering team, conducting 1:1s, coaching and mentoring, including management of skills.
• Setting out the platform strategy including design of secure cloud solutions working alongside our Enterprise and Solution Architects becoming the steward of our cloud infrastructure.
• Be a leader in relation to Information Security, especially in cyber security and DevSecOps, providing advice and support to colleagues around the business.
• Take a lead in continual delivery following an automation-first approach, including how we deploy software by designing CI/CD pipelines.
• Promoting and maintaining good practice in relation to engineering principles, including TDD,

DRY & SOLID, to safeguard code quality and overall system design.

• Evaluating new technologies to improve efficiency, security, and scalability
• Building out proofs-of-concept to support technology evaluation or product pipeline research.
• Providing expertise in enterprise level authentication security
• Providing out of hours support such as for deployments and other potentially business disruptive works.