Below are the details of the position:
Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK
Job Description:
Required Skills:
* 15+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
* 5+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions
* Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
* Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
* Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
* Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
* Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
* Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
* Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
* Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
* Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
* Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience