Platform Engineering Manager

Our Solutions & AI Lab practice are looking for an experienced Platform Engineering Manager to join the team. 

Our Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) practice focuses on helping clients control their data, turn them into actionable insights and better leverage them through the use of Machine Learning solutions directly embedded into businesses processes. We support clients across a number of industries and offer deep expertise in AI, ML, Cloud and Managed Solutions.

What you will be doing

• 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 

Your skills and experience  

• Experience in designing, architecting, and deploying CI/CD systems for modern data analytics platforms and modern web applications in the cloud
• Skilled in writing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automating 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
• 5+ years of experience in hands on delivery of devops, platform engineering, solution design, cloud architecture & development
• Understanding of 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 
• 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