Senior Platform Engineer

Salary Competitive
LocationManchester
Discipline Digital Technology
Reference005682

Here at N Brown, we are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Cloud and Platform team within our digital technology division.

There has never been a more exciting time to be joining our Digital Technology team.  We are completing a major transformation on our technological platform, migrating to the cloud, working on implementing agile methodology and moving towards a fully agile enterprise-wide organisation.

 

We are looking for a Platform Engineer with experience working with authorisation/authentication platforms to join our colleagues within the microservices squad. In this role you will be working on some highly visible, large-scale projects and platforms, collaborating with a wide range of business and technology stakeholders. You’ll have good experience working in a similar role within a complex, large-scale environment with a passion for all things Cloud and AWS, along with a keenness to build a strong DevOps culture

 

In your role as Platform Engineer:

  • Developing and maintaining a scalable, resilient, cloud-based infrastructure using an Infrastructure as Code approach with experience in Linux OS and Terraform 
  • Working with the delivery teams to build and maintain a continuous deployment practice. 
  • Contributing to platform architecture and design, driving continuous improvement. 
  • Responsible for ensuring platforms are kept secure and working with security to build this into the Infrastructure as Code configuration management solution.  
  • Ensure high availability/disaster recovery process are reflected as per the change cycle, and as per each change the platform can be brought back as per the Disaster Recovery/Resilience policy. 
  • Go out into the industry and learn best practices, attend lunch/learns, meet and greets and incorporate gathered knowledge back into the platform. An ability to naturally identify and promote continuous improvement opportunities with a view to build a growth-mindset culture across the wider organisation 

 

Key technical skills we are looking for:

  • Authorisation/authentication platform experience 
  • Terraform
  • ECS
  • Postgres
  • Gitlab CI/CD
  • Docker
  • Keycloak and infinispan ideal but not essential

 

Your Benefits:

  • Competitive bonus scheme – we reward you when we succeed 
  • Company pension scheme which we’ll match up to 5% and if you put in 6% we’ll contribute 8%. 
  • Life Assurance  
  • You will receive 24 days plus bank holidays. Your holiday entitlement increases with length of service, and you’ll have the option to purchase an extra 10 days per year. 
  • Amazing colleague discount scheme across all our brands 
  • And loads more! For more info  https://www.nbrowncareers.co.uk/why-join/your-benefits

 

Employees in our business may have access to our customers’ personal data therefore for a number of our roles, offers of employment are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check. Having a criminal record will not necessarily prevent an individual from obtaining a position with N Brown Group.