Platform Engineer - Azure

City of London
1 week ago
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A leading consultancy is seeking a Platform Engineer with experience in Azure to implement and maintain platforms and services based on the business requirements, constraints and strategies. Starting ASAP, paying between £70-80k base annum.

Contract Type: Permanent
Location: UK Wide

Your role:

Actively working with our clients on digital IaaS, PaaS, SaaS solution strategies, designs, and delivery programmes, transforming their business by delivering solutions and methodologies following best practice.
In time you will be able to create, maintain and enhance standards for delivery for business functionality, as well as developing, maintaining, and enhancing design standards and patterns for infrastructure and system components.
Applying technical innovation with contribution towards internal projects and client bids in order to win new business.
Contribute towards the business units' strategy directly through your own personal growth, alongside coaching and mentoring of our junior talent.
Skills and experience required:

Working in an Agile or DevOps teams
Using agile project management tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps
Public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
Continuous Integration systems such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI or Github Actions
Scripting languages, such as Bash and PowerShell
Configuration Management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Salt
Infrastructure-as-code technologies, such as Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM, Pulumi
Building secure applications and infrastructure
Strong communication skills, with the ability to convey and or understand complex technical concepts clearly and concisely
SRE skills including observability and telemetry monitoring
HashiCorp Suite (Packer, Terraform, Vault, Vagrant, Consul)
Containerisation using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift & Helm
Programming skills using languages such as Python, Go, Java, C# and Typescript.
Security clearance: To successfully join our client's team, it is essential to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance. This requires continuous residency in the UK for the past 5 years, among other eligibility criteria. Please be prepared to answer questions regarding your security clearance during the recruitment process

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