Platform Engineer
Place of Work:
Remote. Occasional travel within the UK
About the role:
As an engineer in a Civica Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining Civica’s cloud-based platforms. You will be responsible for our externally facing Platform, used by our Engineering teams to serve our customers. You’ll also be building our internal developer platform, an exciting project that we’re currently undertaking from the ground up.
What you will be doing:
- Working with both internal and externally facing systems, ensuring that they are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable
- Working on our developer platform, which enables developers to rapidly develop and iterate on our software and services
- Solving complex technical problems
- Helping teams to improve older platforms utilising modern approaches
- Acting as a subject matter expert for other colleagues
- Proactively developing best practices within our platform community
We’d like you to have experience with:
- Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- CI/CD
- Scripting & Automation
- Linux Administration
- Monitoring
- Networking
- Security
- DevOps Concepts & Practices
It would also be great if you have experience with:
- At least one DevOps-friendly programming language such as Python or Go
- Windows Administration
- Migrating VM-based architectures to cloud-native
Some technologies that we use:
- AWS & Azure platforms
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Datadog
- Github
- Azure DevOps
You should apply if you:
- Are knowledgeable and experienced yet flexible; we value strong opinions, loosely held
- Are comfortable with ambiguity
- Are able to both collaborate closely, and work independently
- Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues