As a Platform Engineer, you will design, build, and optimize platforms, ensuring security, scalability, and availability while enhancing the technology stack. Responsibilities include code reviews, prioritizing operational issues, and developing platform engineering tools. You will implement various Microsoft Cloud solutions and have extensive experience in Azure and related technologies.
Join us as a Platform Engineer
- This is an opportunity to take on a high profile role, which will see you design, build and improve our platforms
- You’ll be making sure that they are secure, scalable and available, collaborating across teams to share and re-utilise good practice and technology stack
- Hone your technical expertise and advance your career in this exciting, fast paced role
- This role is being offered for a period of 12 months
What you'll do
As a Platform Engineer, you’ll make sure that our platforms are robust, value for money and continuously optimised. You’ll be seen to make sure the technology stack is constantly enhanced by adding new features and ensuring defects are resolved in a timely manner. In addition, we’ll also look to you to contribute to the code base and make sure that it is clean, elegant, reusable, easy to maintain and extend.
You’ll also:
- Proactively perform code and design peer reviews
- Make sure platforms and operational issues, defects, maintenance activities are prioritised appropriately and provide highly available and performing solutions
- Contribute to Platform Operations (tickets, support and incident response) and own, develop and improve platform engineering tools, processes and ways of working
- Take ownership for the implementation of Identity, Authentication, Mobility, Messaging and Collaboration solution to the Microsoft Cloud
The skills you'll need
We’re looking for someone with extensive hands on experience of Azure, design, build and deployment using CI and CD.
You’ll also need:
- Extensive hands-on experience in design, build and deployment of Microsoft Azure tech stack, particularly PaaS resources and AKS implementations using CI/CD
- Experience in IaC, and technologies such as PowerShell, JSON, Azure Bicep, Azure ARM and Azure DevOps, Jenkins
- Hands on experience with Azure administration including MS Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF), Landing Zone, Hub and Spoke Networking and cloud best practices across platform and security
- Knowledge of cloud native, micro services including containerisation and API Management
- Experience of real-time logging and monitoring, using tools such as Log Analytics, AppInsights, Azure Monitor, Prometheus and Grafana
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Tools and Techs including Azure AD, Microsoft 365, Device Management/End Point Manager, cloud best practices across platform and security
Hours
35
Job Posting Closing Date:
17/03/2025
Ways of Working:Hybrid
Top Skills
Appinsights
Azure
Azure Arm
Azure Bicep
Azure Devops
Azure Monitor
Grafana
Jenkins
JSON
Log Analytics
Microsoft 365
Powershell
Prometheus
NatWest Group London, England Office
250 Bishopsgate, London, United Kingdom, EC2M 4AA
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