Kainos

Senior Platform Engineer - AWS

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7 days ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design significant components of modern digital service platforms and their automation, build, deployment, and support processes.
  • Build, test, deploy, monitor, and support software components in production environments.
  • Use AWS, configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, automation, container orchestration, and version control tools to solve business problems.
  • Create scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, performant, cost-effective designs that minimize vendor lock-in.
  • Implement continuous delivery processes and support software releases into production.
  • Participate in architecture, estimation, product planning, user story and requirements creation, and collaborative technical decision-making.
  • Debug complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools.
  • Support live operations and continuously improve service availability, security, and performance.
  • Coach and mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing.

Requirements

  • Significant expertise using multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and automation tools.
  • Fluency in at least one of PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or Groovy.
  • Demonstrable experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant platform components in production.
  • Experience designing scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, performant, cost-effective systems and minimizing lock-in.
  • Experience using AWS public cloud platforms, modern version control systems including Git, and configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and container orchestration tooling.
  • Experience applying infrastructure and application best practices for security, elasticity, and performance.
  • Strong teamwork and communication skills in multidisciplinary environments, including communication with technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Active security clearance is required.
  • A related third-level or equivalent qualification is desirable.
  • Mid-level certification with a public cloud provider such as AWS or Azure is desirable.
  • Experience with cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies and with managing, mentoring, or coaching junior staff is desirable.

Benefits

  • People-first culture with opportunities for learning, development, and career growth.
  • Inclusive workplace committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
  • Recruitment accommodations and adjustments are available through the talent acquisition team.

Tech Stack

AWSAzureBashGitGoGroovyPowerShellPythonRuby

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About Kainos

1,001-5,000 employees
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