Platform Engineering Manager, Baringa
AWS or Azure
1-3 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
A Global consultancy solving complex client challenges with AI-driven solutions
Posted today
A Global consultancy solving complex client challenges with AI-driven solutions
1001+ employees
Posted today
1-3 days a week in office (Victoria, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – solving complex client challenges through cutting-edge AI solutions and cloud-native engineering.
Role
Who you are
- Designing, architecting, and deploying CI/CD systems for modern data analytics platforms and modern web applications in the cloud
- Ability to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate application deployment using industry standard tools and services
- Hands on experience on designing, architecting and implementing security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery and monitoring aspects of cloud solutions.
- Competent in at least one popular programming language, such as Python or JavaScript
- You have 5+ years of experience in hands on delivery of devops, platform engineering, solution design, cloud architecture & development
- You understand how to architect modern solutions in the cloud that are robust and scalable, striving for simplicity and low maintenance
- Desire to support and help build internal development platforms and design systems to use as accelerators, using the developer teams as key stakeholders to drive and influence demand and prioritisation
- Ability to justify and define best practices and standards, influencing the software development lifecycle policy
- Experience of building robust modular CI/CD templates, that centralise and govern
- Responsibility while always challenging raising the bar in quality for the development team
- Comfortable to be challenged by other architect/security teams and explain the merits of your proposal
Desirable
- We expect applying candidates to hold or willing to obtain one of the below certifications or better:
- ▪ AWS Associate (Developer, Architect, SysOps)
- ▪ Azure Associate (Developer, Administration)
- ▪ GCP Associate (Cloud Engineer)
- ▪ Hashicorp: Terraform Associate
What the job involves
- Focus on the hardening of environments and ensuring policies are planned and enforced
- Implement and advocate for security best practices in all aspects of the development and deployment lifecycle
- Ensure compliance with industry standards and manage risks associated with cloud deployments
- Prioritize modularity and the toolchain produced by the platform engineering team to support accelerators and automation
- Design, architect, develop, deploy, and evolve CI/CD systems to help our clients transition to cloud-based data analytics platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and leverage modern architecture patterns (e.g., APIs, events)
- Write and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automate application deployment using industry-standard tools and services
- Scale the services and toolchain produced by the platform engineering team to support accelerators and automation of configuration improvements
- Build reusable, extensible, secure artifacts and drive Cloud and DevOps industry best practices on engineering teams
- Design and implement solutions that ensure high availability and disaster recovery
- Define and implement monitoring best practices and deploy health check agents
- Ensure logging best practices are defined and implemented
- Develop and process an alerting strategy to define severity and direct alerts appropriately
- Translate business requirements (both functional and non-functional) into a simplified solution, ensuring compliance with the organisations strategy, policies and standards
- Create high-level designs and architectures which deliver on the needs of the project
- Financial operations and cost optimisations of infrastructure and proposed architecture
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Management consultancy firm Baringa has been paving the way for the industry since the turn of the 21st century. Working across a wealth of high-value industries, its expertise has led to rankings in the Financial Times list of leading management consultancies for several years running.
What sets Baringa apart is its focus on digitisation. As AI takes hold within core industries such as energy and finance, Baringa has been helping its clients implement value-adding uses for these technologies, which has led to recognition as an AI expert.
80% of its clients, which include both FTSE 100 companies and exciting new startups, come from referrals, recommendations and returning business, indicating Baringa’s consultancy status as a safe pair of hands. Its client list includes international government departments, green energy companies and pharmaceuticals, and Baringa’s influence now spans across Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.
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Company benefits
- Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service
- Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave
- Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
- Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice
- Career Progression: No one develops at the same pace. That’s why we have quarterly rather than annual promotion reviews. We don’t have any quotas: if you’re ready and delivering at the right level, you’ll get that promotion
- Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success
- Training & Development: 10 training points refreshed yearly (totalling £5000), that can be spent freely on self development initiatives examples: - Conference: Microsoft Build, AWS Re-Invent, AWS Summit London, Hashicorp Hashidays. - Certifications: AWS, Azure, GCP, Hashicorp, Github - Training: Python, TypeScript .etc - Learning Platform: LinkedIn Learning, Cloud Academy, Plural-sight, Udemy - Hackathons: Planned Team Building Days - Further Education: MSc, PhD
- Book Allowance: We offer a generous book allowance for employees to help expand our library. - Physical Books - Digital Books - Annual Subscriptions: Medium.com - Financial Times Membership
Company values
- Be kind - Our people are the key to growing our business and creating impact that lasts. And it all starts with being kind to each other, our clients, and ourselves. We believe in building inclusive, collaborative and compassionate environments for all, and thrive on teamwork and developing strong relationships. We've even been in the top 10 Great Places to Work for the last 17 consecutive years!
- Be curious - We’re gleefully geeky about the industries we work in. In fact, we thrive in every opportunity we get to immerse ourselves and bring our deep knowledge and expertise to our clients. We are excited by those with a growth mindset, who demonstrate innovation and are passionate about what they do. We're committed to training and development!
- Be great - Our clients love how we’re always part of the team – how we get to know them and work out what makes their businesses tick. We’re passionate about tackling their biggest, most strategic challenges and leaving them better equipped to handle the next one. Behaviours in our teams such as integrity, ownership, and having pride in high quality work make us who we are.
Company HQ
Westminster, London, UK
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Leadership
Kelly Hume
(Partner, Solutions and AI Lab)A Partner at Baringa for 6 years. Business Unit Lead for the Solutions and AI Lab team. Specialisms in all aspects of data.
Ed Sharkey
(Partner, Solutions and AI Lab)A Partner at Baringa for almost 5 years, promoted twice. Specialisms in machine learning and data science.
People progressing
A Manager with Baringa for 4 years, promoted twice. Specialisms in data science, machine learning and software development.
A Manager with Baringa for almost 6 years, promoted 3 times. Specialisms in data science and machine learning.
A Director with Baringa for 4.5 years, promoted twice. Specialisms in all aspects of the Solutions and AI Lab team.
A Senior Manager with Baringa for almost 5 years, promoted twice. Specialisms in devops, infrastructure, architecture and cloud security (AWS and Azure).
Manager with Baringa for 3.5 years. Specialisms in machine learning and data science.
Manager at Baringa for 5 years. Joined following a summer internship & has since been promoted 3 times. Specialisms in full stack software development.
Manager at Baringa for 6 years. Specialisms in generative AI and data science.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Baringa
Bethaney Leeson (DEI Advisor)
- We're proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.
- All applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed.
- We have plenty of communities and networks in Baringa, helping everyone have a sense of belonging, celebrating diversity and keep inclusion is a top priority. These range from neurodiversity, ethnic diversity, gender diversity, interfaith, LGBTQIA+, social mobility, carers, working parents, flexible workers, disability and long term health conditions, and even those transitioning from Industry to Consulting environments. Our regular social events also take into consideration people from all walks of life!
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