Associate Platform Engineer

Job Type:

• Platform Knowledge: Good awareness of cloud-native services and containerized systems, with some practical exposure.

• Data services: An understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses.

• CI/CD Tooling: Practical experience working with Azure DevOps pipelines or similar tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet), with support from more experienced engineers where needed.

• DevOps/SRE Experience: Some experience involving DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or operational support responsibilities.

• IaC Experience: Working knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates, Bicep or YAML, with an understanding of version control and state management concepts.

• Cloud Exposure: Hands-on experience of working with Azure, GCP or hybrid cloud environments.

• Security Mindset: Awareness of secure engineering practices, risk concepts, and application security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST.

• Monitoring Tools: Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, ELK or similar, with an understanding of how alerts, dashboards, and cloud cost visibility help improve reliability and efficiency.

• Future Looking: You are interested, curious and aware of new techniques and tools that can improve the delivery of quality solutions, and are willing to learn, experiment and adopt these where appropriate.
  

• Pipeline Support: Help to create, maintain, and secure CI/CD pipelines for publishing code to cloud environments (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), supporting fast, frequent, automated, and reliable deployments.

• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Contribute to the automation of cloud and on-premise infrastructure setup and maintenance within your value stream, using tools like Terraform and Ansible to help keep environments consistent.

• DevOps Culture: Support the adoption of DevOps principles and culture within squads, contributing ideas and helping improve automation and ways of working.

• Reliability & Monitoring: Help build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging at platform, application and data levels, supporting teams to identify issues and understand service availability and performance.

• Incident Management: Participate in Incident Management, Problem Resolution, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities, helping investigate issues, document findings, and implement agreed preventative measures.

• Cost & Efficiency: Help identify time-saving and cost-optimizing opportunities, supporting reviews of resource utilization and contributing to changes that improve efficiency.

• Resilience: Support the delivery of secure, scalable, and resilient production and dev/test environments, developing knowledge of containerized, serverless, microservice and data service patterns.

• Security Automation: Contribute to security automation and security testing by helping embed security checks and gates (SAST/DAST) within CI/CD pipelines.

• Risk Mitigation: Support threat modelling and risk assessment activities, helping implement security controls that keep solutions secure throughout design and build stages.

• Vulnerability Management: Help respond to new and emerging security threats and vulnerabilities, supporting application security processes and maintaining compliance across environments.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Head of Platform Engineering, Head of Governance & Architecture, Group InfoSec and development squads to apply security, compliance, tagging and naming standards consistently.

• Reporting: Reports to the Head of Platform Engineering.
• Direct Reports: None (hands-on technical role).
• Key Partners: Head of Platform Engineering, Head of Engineering, Product Owners and Development Squads (Software/Data Engineers/SDETs).

Work with amazing people and be part of a unique culture