Lead/Principal Platform Engineer

JOB FAMILY: Platform Engineering
JOB PROFILE TITLE: Lead Platform Engineer
MANAGEMENT LEVEL: Consultant

JOB PROFILE DESCRIPTION

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:
As a Lead Platform Engineer (Consultant) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading teams
to design, automate, build, manage and optimise modern digital service platforms. It’s a
fast-paced environment and you’ll be trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions. You’ll
do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with colleagues that will
help you to learn, develop and grow. As the technical leader in the team, you will also
interact with customers, share knowledge and mentor those around you.

Your key responsibilities will include:
• Working as part of a team - You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing,
consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and
deploy software of the highest quality; including the operation and continuous
improvement of underlying platform services.
• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll ensure the latest technologies are
employed appropriately and aligned with industry best practices for maximum user
and business benefit.
• Share your knowledge – As a respected technologist within Kainos, you’ll
begin broadcasting your opinions. You’ll be supported to actively share
knowledge both internally through communities of practice and more
widely in industry.
• Becoming a Role Model – You’ll support your colleagues and foster a DevOps
culture in all that you do by embodying the Kainos values. You’ll be a person your
colleagues look up to – people trust your decisions because they are transparent
and justified. You’ll be passionate and committed to ensuring Kainos projects are
successful.
• Pushing the boundaries – Through exposure to technology you may develop
specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.
• Providing Technical Leadership – You’ll provide direction and leadership for your
team as you solve challenging problems together on delivery and support projects.
• Putting people first & developing others – You’ll manage, coach and develop a
small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and
assisting in their career development.

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and
clearly communicate technical design (or significant portions thereof) in

conversation, documentation and presentation to a technical and non-
technical audience.

• We all work in teams here in Kainos – You’ll need a proven experience of team
leadership and supporting a DevOps culture in delivering and/or supporting
complex projects.

• Significant expertise in:
o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring
and/or operating, enhancing and improving reliability of modern digital
service platform in production environments.
o Using the latest Continuous Delivery and automation techniques for
releasing operationally ready software to production, including
platform orchestration through the use of multiple configuration
management tools.

• Demonstrable experience in:
o Building and/or supporting modern digital service platforms to include
architecture, design, estimation, planning and iteration on MVP using a
modern agile approach.
o Championing best practice use of Site Reliability Engineering tooling,
techniques and processes to manage and improve existing platform
services. E.g. monitoring, platform modernisation and cost optimisation.
o Use of a public cloud platform(s) including SaaS or PaaS offerings (AWS or
Azure) to solve business problems.

DESIRABLE
• Obtained certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).
• Obtained certification relating to a particular area of specialisation e.g. Kubernetes
CKAD.

WHO YOU ARE:
Our vision is to enable outstanding people to create digital solutions that have a positive
impact on people’s lives. Our values aren't abstract; they are the behaviours we expect
from each other every day and underpin everything that we do. We expect everyone to
display our values by being determined in how obstacles are overcome; honest when
dealing with others; respectful of how you treat others; creative to find solutions to
complex problems and cooperative by sharing information, knowledge and experience.
These values, applied collectively, help to produce an outstanding Kainos person, team
and culture.