Sr. Specialist I

Key responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions. Including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources.


• Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation.


• Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure.


• Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations. Whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the deployment and operation of systems.

Skills Required:

Minimum

• Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application. 


• Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (e.g. Jenkins and GitHub Actions). 


• Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes). 


• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Essential

• Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions.


• Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.


• Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams — including designers, product managers, and analysts.


• Hands on CloudFormation scripting, troubleshooting and debugging


• Working knowledge of Chef, scripting and troubleshooting


• Experience with Python scripting and troubleshooting


• Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy scripting


• Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services


• Experience with AWS services – EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.