Platform Engineer 6 month FTC

Job description

Platform Engineer – 6 month fixed term contract We offer remote working. If preferred, we can also do a hybrid approach with our offices based in Manchester, Stoke, Peterborough, Sunderland, Chesterfield and Tunbridge Wells. Role Purpose: The Platform Engineer will support the delivery of the group’s vision for developer self-service, containerisation, golden templates and automation. Utilising technologies such as internal developer platforms (Backstage), Kubernetes (AKS, NKP etc.), Ci/CD (Azure Devops pipelines, GitLab, octopus etc.), GitOps (ArgoCD), Infrastructure as code (Terraform) within both on prem and public cloud providers. Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities: Cloud Platforms: - Proficiency with major cloud providers primarily Azure - Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Cloud services (e.g., AKS, Azure Functions, GKE) Infrastructure as Code (IaC): - Tools like Terraform - Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet) Containerization & Orchestration: - Docker and container life cycle management - Kubernetes (K8s) architecture and operations - Helm charts, Kustomize Security & Compliance: - Identity and Access Management (IAM) ( eg...