Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Bristol - Hybrid Working / 3 days per week office based

£70,000 - £85,000 + benefits

Fantastic new permanent opportunity for an experienced Platform Operations Engineer with this specialist financial services company based in Bristol. Reporting into the Platform Service Delivery Lead you will support, maintain and improve highly scalable and reliable cloud platform infrastructure services. You will be responsible for the day to day operations of the Cloud Platform and be accountable for its availability.

You will be interested in problem solving and have experience in working in an operations environment. You enjoy making a difference and bringing new ideas and perceptive to a team. You also will need to be a strong advocate of Infrastructure as code and the value of automation. You will have a desire to become a technical leader within the team and have a good understanding of cloud technologies and containerisation.

Skills Required:

• Proven previous experience gained working within a similar Platform Engineer.
• Strong command line experience with RHEL.
• Proficient at scripting with one or more of the following: Java, Perl, Python, or scripting in Shell and Perl.
• Automating delivery of Infrastructure as Code e.g. Terraform.
• Working with software development methodologies; agile, test automation and CI/CD in public/private/hybrid cloud environment.
• Automating configuration management (e.g. Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt).
• Experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proven experience working with a major Cloud Infrastructure vendor e.g. AWS, Azure.

For any further queries regarding the role, please contact Danny Palmer at