Platform Engineer
Fixed Term Contract Role with Company Benefits
Salary- £45 - £55K
Hybrid- Manchester (With 2 day's working onsite and 3 day's WFH.)

We are currently supporting one of our prestigious clients within the Public Sector. We are searching for experienced DevOps/Platform Engineers to work on a Fixed Term Contract basis.

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

Key to this role is supporting and delivering cloud migration programmes. The role includes designing, building and maintenance of the delivery infrastructure, systems, and processes, leading with modern platforms and ways of working.

Candidates applying for this role should have some of the following skills and experience.

* Familiarity with collaboration suites ie 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 (eg 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.

Successful candidate should be able to demonstrate they can:

* 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.

If your qualification aligns with this position, please apply by submitting your CV below.

To apply today, contact Neha Cherian (see below)

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