Senior Platform Engineer

  • Anywhere

Place of Work:

Remote. Occasional travel within the UK

About the role:

As a senior 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. You’ll also act as both an escalation point and a mentor within your team, ensuring that other platform engineers are set up for success.

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 the most complex technical problems that the team works on
  • Helping teams to improve older tech stacks & platforms utilising modern approaches
  • Acting as a subject matter expert for other colleagues
  • Actively influencing company-wide architecture
  • Proactively developing best practices within the platform community
  • Mentoring other platform engineers

We’d like you to have experience with:

  • Microsoft Azure
  • 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:

  • Windows Administration
  • Migrating VM-based architectures to cloud-native
  • At least one DevOps-friendly programming language such as Python or Go

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
  • Enjoy mentoring colleagues
  • Are able to both collaborate closely, and work independently
  • Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including senior management