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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, optimizing Cloud Infrastructure including Azure PaaS 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 alert on technology 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 identify root causes.
* Ensure lifecycle management for monitoring, alerting, and software products used by internal customers.
* Work within agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban principles.
Qualifications and Skills
* Experience in Salesforce environments; familiarity with Copado for CI/CD is advantageous.
* Proven experience with cloud PaaS, preferably Azure.
* Knowledge of Linux and shell scripting.
* Strong programming skills in C#, PowerShell, scripting languages, JavaScript, Python.
* Experience with infrastructure platforms and services like Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, Splunk.
* Experience with containerization systems such as Kubernetes and Docker.
* Experience with Azure DevOps and multi-stage pipelines for large-scale software management.
* Solid understanding of networking protocols and cloud network design.
* Strong database knowledge across relational, graph, and document databases.
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and successful business.
YOU MUST HAVE A VALID UK WORK VISA TO APPLY
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Information Technology
* Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting
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