Platform Engineer (DevOps) – Manchester

Adecco

Platform Engineer (DevOps)

Rate – 650 a day

Duration – 6 Months +

Location – Manchester

Ir35 – Inside Ir35 (Must use an umbrella company)

We are currently recruiting for platform engineers, who are hands on and possess a deep understanding of the Azure ecosystem to join delivery teams working on some of the most exciting digital programmes within the education sector. As an Azure expert, you’ll work in small product teams alongside developers, architects, designers, analysts and product owners to deliver automation, tooling and cloud infrastructure.

You’ll have the expertise and confidence to lead the definition and support of the Azure, AWS delivery platform in complex engagements, typically working in multi-disciplinary teams.

The successful candidate will need to be able to demonstrate they can:

• Familiarity with collaboration suites i.e. Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)
• Hands on with any of Azure, AWS or GCP Services
• Automating cloud services
• Exposure towards Infrastructure Management, Data Migration.
• Scripting with one or more of the following: Powershell, Python, Go
• SecOps experience.
• Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) via Terraform.
• Deep understanding of CI/CD pipeline
• Code Repository Management (e.g. Gitlab, GitHub, Bitbucket)
• Architecture awareness and experience around enterprise scale applications and distributed systems
• Has a DevOps mind-set towards Automation.
• Understanding of Security Compliance PCI DSS, ISO, Cyber Essentials, NIST.

Desirable Criteria

• Experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Best Practices, Cost Optimisation and Architecture
• Automating configuration management Ansible.
• Knowledge around Identity Management, DNS, SAML 2.0.

Responsibilities:

• Use their extensive cloud experience to serve as a DevOps and Platform evangelist who educates development teams and other key stakeholders.
• Serve as a coach and mentor to team colleagues and act as an internal consultant and advisor for other technical teams with relation to leveraging automation technologies.
• Comfortable working in a highly visible and business-facing role where you need to break down complex problems, facilitate capturing requirements and provide creative solutions suitable to the stakeholder’s problem statement.
• Demonstrate a passion for cloud engineering and eager to help shape an agile-minded cloud platform team ready for growth.