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Lead Platform Engineer

Venn Group

Posted 7 days ago, valid for 13 days

Corsham, Wiltshire SN139RA, England

£60,000 - £72,000 per annum

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

The position is for a Lead Platform Engineer with a DV clearance or willingness to undergo DV.
The role involves building a cloud-native Kubernetes environment for defense applications and requires an urgent start.
Candidates should have experience in delivering software for a complete DevOps toolchain and mentoring junior staff.
Key skills include knowledge of VMware, OpenShift, Terraform, and DNS management, among others.
The salary for this role is competitive, and candidates should possess at least 5 years of relevant experience.

Job Title: Lead Platform Engineer

Clearance: DV (or SC willing to undergo DV)

Overview: We are seeking a Lead Platform Engineer to help us build the D2S Platform, a cloud-native Kubernetes environment for defence applications. This role requires an urgent start, and we are competing with one other partner for this resource.

Key Responsibilities:

Deliver and integrate software to form a complete DevOps toolchain.
Plan and design large groups of stories.
Transform technical requirements into an effective DevOps toolchain to enable product delivery.
Provide coaching and mentoring to more junior colleagues.
Ensure that deployment strategies for products are repeatable, scalable, and highly available.
Provide deep technical knowledge, support delivery teams, and solve complex problems.

Skills:

Knowledge of and ability to implement solutions for:
VMware / Similar virtualisation platforms
OpenShift / Kubernetes
Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
Infoblox / DNS
TLS certificate management
Dell Data Domain / backups
Dell PowerScale / storage

Desirable Qualifications:

ITIL Foundation
Cloud certifications, e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional

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