Job Description

· Lead your teams as they design, develop, and maintain platforms using Azure services, adhering to best practices for scalability, reliability, and security.

· Design and deploy Windows and Linux servers following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices

· Use configuration management tooling to automate the deployment and configuration of third-party software products

· Design, deploy and administer Container Orchestration environments following infrastructure as code and modern DevSecOps practices

· Design, deploy and maintain Container based solutions

· Lead other platform engineers, providing guidance and mentoring to help others improve their skills.

· Measure your team performance against industry benchmarks

· Peer review code, ensuring it is of high quality, well-structured, and maintainable.

· Lead a community of like-minded engineers to ensure we learn from one another and continuously improve our practices

Requirements

Skill Requirement

Essential Technical Skills (all require 6yrs+ experience in production setting):

· Expert designing and building secure platforms on Azure using well architected framework

· Expert with Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, Pulumi)

· Expert with Configuration Management tooling (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

· Expert with setting up and administering Container Orchestration systems (e.g. EKS, AKS, OpenShift)

· Expert with Container technologies (e.g. Helm, Harbour)

· Expert with Build & Release Automation (e.g. Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux, SonarQube)

· Expert with Coding Languages (e.g. Python, Bash, Powershell, Go)

· Expert working with distributed source control solutions and following best practices e.g. Git, branching, pull requests

· Expert in building products using enterprise integration patterns and practices (like event-driven architectures)

· Must have Azure Solution Architect certification

Desirable Technical Skills:

· Experience with Cloud Networking

· Experience administering Operating Systems

· Experience setting up and administering observability tooling

· Experience of Agile and Product based Delivery

· Experience of good coding patterns & practices

Essential Soft Skills:

· Bright, curious, entrepreneurial person who takes initiative and is willing to learn

· Passion to be a part of a cutting-edge team that challenges the status quo

· Expert knowledge of operating in DevSecOps environment

· Someone who knows what good looks like and inspires those around them to achieve

· Technically strong and willing and able to learn at a fast pace

· A can-do attitude and team player

· Focus on continuous improvement