ABOUT THE JOB YOU’RE CONSIDERING

Are you a passionate Platform Engineer eager to make a difference? We invite you to be part of our agile team, helping public sector clients build and continuously improve digital services using the best open-source software.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

• Experience debugging complex, multi-server service in a high availability production environment.
• Good communication skills both written and verbal, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts clearly and concisely to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Sound knowledge of Linux, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience of building infrastructure in AWS using Terraform.
• Experience in automation tooling such as Ansible.
• Provide technical leadership in either a project sense and/or to more junior members of your team.
• Strong understanding of CI environments and how they facilitate the automation process with other orchestration tools.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Core Networking & Loadbalancing.
• Jenkins / Concourse / Gitlab CI.
• Git / GitHub / GitLab.
• Graphite / Grafana / ELK / Prometheus.
• SQL / NO-SQL DB’s.
• HashiCorp (Packer / Terraform / Vault / Consul).

YOUR ROLE

• You’ll undertake cross-functional engineering projects, working in small teams with other Engineers in different knowledge spheres, building supportable, sustainable and reliable services.
• You’ll work with great technology – the UK Government has an IT strategy based on user centric design, modern open source technology, continuous integration/delivery and modern software architectures such as microservices and cloud technology to name but a few.
• You’ll help us achieve our vision – the chance to make a real difference at the heart of the digital transformation within the UK Public Sector
• You’ll get opportunities to develop and progress – working on large scale, technically challenging projects. You will be constantly learning through modern learning environments.