Senior Platform Engineer, Opus 2

• A solid working knowledge of Java, Python or Go, with the ability to provide meaningful code reviews to engineers of all levels
• Solid, practical experience of working with AWS and/or Kubernetes
• Excellent problem-solving skills, a collaborative mindset, with strong communication skills

Desirable

• The Infrastructure Engineering team is part of the wider Product Engineering team based out of our friendly office in central Edinburgh
• The team collaborate closely with the other Development teams within the department, with a focus on enabling engineers to self-serve through automation and appropriate guardrails
• We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, implement, and maintain our cloud infrastructure, engineer tooling and CI/CD pipelines
• You will play a crucial role in ensuring high availability, security, and scalability of our services while mentoring other engineers
• Collaborating with the development team on system architecture and application decisions to ensure scalability, reliability, and security
• Writing tooling to improve engineer productivity and to maintain the principles of no manual intervention within the platform
• Identifying and implementing cost-saving strategies to optimize AWS spend while maintaining performance and reliability
• Deploying and maintaining test environments to validate infrastructure changes and configurations
• Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GHA, ArgoCD and GitOps best practices
• Regularly reviewing security configurations of infrastructure for best practice and planning remediation of emerging threats
• Managing observability and monitoring using Grafana Cloud
• Upskilling developers and junior engineers to adopt best practices and empowering them to follow a "build it, run it" approach