Lead Platform Engineer - Bournemouth
Hybrid working model - 2-3 days per week in the office
The Company:
The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad.
The role:
As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of the mission to evolve and build a new Digital Platform that is performant at scale, secure, compliant with internal and industry regulations, and meets availability requirements. You will also work on managing change through technology systems to ensure optimal release frequency, lead time for change, change failure rates, and mean time to resolve.
What you will be doing:
* Document existing processes and automate them using software you develop or third-party tools.
* Build, operate, maintain, and collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams to optimize Cloud Infrastructure, including PaaS in Azure and SaaS components like Salesforce.
* Work with product engineering teams on development recommendations.
* Coordinate with internal service providers and product teams to improve speed and reliability of end-to-end solutions and CICD processes.
* Collaborate with information security teams to implement security policies efficiently and flexibly.
* Design, build, operate, monitor, and set up alerting for large, complex multi-site B2C and B2B applications.
* Create comprehensive documentation and software to ensure actions are repeatable.
* Automate operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, and workflows.
* Trace issues across systems, working with developers to diagnose root causes.
* Ensure lifecycle management for monitoring, alerting, and software used by internal customers of your SRE products.
* Work within agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban principles.
What you'll bring:
* Expertise in complex Salesforce environments; experience with Copado for CI/CD is a plus.
* Proven experience with a major cloud PaaS, preferably Azure.
* Familiarity with Linux and shell scripting.
* Strong programming skills such as C#, PowerShell, scripting languages, JavaScript, Python.
* Experience with infrastructure platforms and services like Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, Splunk.
* Knowledge of containerization systems like Kubernetes and Docker is advantageous.
* Experience with Azure DevOps and multi-stage pipelines for managing large-scale software estates.
* Strong understanding of networking protocols and cloud network design, including VPNs, subnets, regions/zones, and related technologies like Auth0 and APIM.
* Robust database knowledge across relational, graph, and document models.
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and successful business.
NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A VALID UK WORK VISA TO APPLY.
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