Platform Engineer

A new permanent opportunity to join a fast growing, successful energy, technology and data organisation as a Platform Engineer.
The role, located in Surrey is to enhance the software development process, platforms and environments all running on the Microsoft suite. Working across and with the development, testing and infrastructure teams to deliver high quality solutions and services across the business.
The development, deployment and production environments are: 85% self hosted, 10% Azure and 5% AWS. My client are aiming to continue with this self-hosted or hybrid model, so experience of on-premise builds and deployments is essential.
You will have solid experience at a mid-senior level in standardising development practices and tooling to establish frameworks wherever possible. Keeping ahead of best practices in Platform Engineer and to challenge and have an opinion. Elevate new DevOps technologies and to drive their adoption across the software engineering teams.
Automate data capture and reporting against agreed KPIs’. Document ‘to-be processes and facilitate their adoption. Support the software testing function in creating and refreshing data in test environments. Mentoring of junior members of staff and deputising for the team leader as and when required.
You will be comfortable with scripting in a variety of languages and experienced with configuration and have come from a development background. Happy and confident to recommend standards and helping to adopt best practices along with reviewing of new technologies.
There is hybrid working on offer and the office is centrally located with plenty of local parking and a short walk from a train station. There is a competitive salary and excellent company benefits on offer.
Skills/Experience/attributes:

• Minimum of four-six years solid experience as a Platform Engineer or within as similar role is essential
  
• Degree educated
  
• Strong experience of configuration and scripting
  
• Experience from a Development background
  
• Experience of message queues (Rabit MQ)
  
• Infrastructure as code experience (Teraform)
  
• Server-side scripting, automation and batch processes - PowerShell and Bash are essential
  
• Experience of Git version control and branching strategies
  
• Observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace or a similar tool set are essential
  
• Administration and configuration of development management tools (Jira, Confluence and Azure DevOps Server)
  
• Experience of the Microsoft tech stack for development (C#,.Net, VB.Net, NuGet).
  
• Highly organised with a high attention for detail
  
• Strive to get things right first time
  
• Demonstrate a customer focused approach
  
• Professional, confident and calm even in challenging situations
  
• Strive to meet objectives and improve performance
  
• Supportive and helpful team player
  
• Articulate, professional with clear verbal and written communication skills