Lead Platform Engineer

at  Travis Perkins plc

A BIT ABOUT US

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.
With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

As a Lead Platform Engineer, working within our Infrastructure design team, you will be responsible for designing, building, maintaining and running high quality automated platforms and pipelines using the latest cloud technologies and automation tooling. You will define, follow and contribute to good design practices, standards, documentation and approaches to create scalable, secure & reusable platforms to meet business requirements.

SOME ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE ROLE:

• Responsible for the design, development and adoption of automated, scalable and secure cloud platforms and CI/CD pipelines for the strategic delivery of technology solutions. Coauthor proven design patterns for solving common business problems.
• The engineer will lead the support and maintenance of any infrastructure or platform components to ensure they are operating within supported version and configuration envelopes in order to provide the safest and most secure environment possible.
• Responsible for co-authoring and maintaining a catalogue of tools, standards, patterns and documents that support our use of our public cloud platforms and overseeing adherence by other platform engineers. Provide architectural assistance to maintain the highest standards of delivery across the team.
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve the more complex technical issues and queries for Cloud platforms and automation tooling, and assist with architectural challenges.
• Using the latest tooling design and implementing logging, monitoring, alerting, backup and DR solutions to be used in conjunction with deployed platforms from development all the way through to production to ensure an agreed level of service can be maintained.
• Mentor, coach and lead training for other members of the team such as platform and support engineers to help build their skills and confidence. Provide technical guidance and ensure that quality, standards and best practices are adhered to.
• Continuously assess and optimise the performance, security, and cost-effectiveness of the platform infrastructure. Lead with decommissioning plans where systems / platforms are no longer required. Provision the most cost effective cloud platforms only when required and scaling as appropriate
• Proactively develop skills as required to support the fast-changing technology landscape and stay up to date with these technologies to help determine if they may be fit for purpose for consumption within the business