Senior Platform Engineer

• Use platform metrics and developer feedback to inform conversations, challenge assumptions, and propose improvements.

• Evaluate platform approaches with commercial awareness, identifying cost‑efficient infrastructure options.

• Clearly articulate platform value and enable engineering teams to understand and adopt it.

Delivery

• Break down large platform initiatives into incremental, testable slices that unlock early learning and value.

• Contribute to accurate estimation and planning, highlighting risks and dependencies.

• Promote agile ways of working and challenge behaviours that hinder flow and predictability.

• Communicate clearly, simplify complex platform concepts, and produce golden path documentation so teams can self-serve.

Engineering Practices

• Write high‑quality, maintainable infrastructure-as-code and platform tooling aligned to ENSEK standards (e.g. Terraform, Crossplane, Helm).

• Contribute to platform architectural discussions; propose cloud-native design options with strong reasoning, including EKS, GitOps, and self-service patterns.

• Apply test‑first approaches and contribute to robust testing strategies for platform tooling and infrastructure changes.

• Improve observability, alerting, and operational practices across platform services to ensure reliability for all engineering teams.

• Advocate secure coding and infrastructure practices, including least-privilege access and supply chain hygiene, ensuring compliance with ENSEK’s policy.

Engineering Community

• Share platform knowledge widely, contribute to guilds, and elevate engineering and infrastructure standards.

• Mentor junior engineers, support skill development across the team, and help onboard engineering teams onto platform capabilities and golden path tooling.

• Participate in platform and community improvement initiatives, champion golden path adoption, and uphold ENSEK engineering values.

Product Skills

• Developer Focus: Applies internal engineering team insight to shape platform delivery and technical decisions.

• Insight Driven: Uses platform metrics and developer feedback to challenge assumptions and propose alternatives.

• Commercial Awareness: Understands infrastructure cost implications and identifies value‑optimising platform solutions.

Delivery Skills

• Agility: Breaks down complexity; supports effective refinement and estimation.

• Simplicity: Communicates clearly; identifies opportunities to simplify processes and solutions.

Engineering Skills

• Code & IaC: Writes high‑quality, well‑structured code and infrastructure-as-code; provides meaningful feedback in reviews across Terraform, Crossplane, and GitHub Actions.

• Design: Contributes to platform system design, demonstrating understanding of cloud-native architecture, EKS cluster patterns, and self-service infrastructure.

• Operations: Builds production‑ready software and continuously improves operational practices.

• Security & Compliance: Follows and promotes secure development standards.

Soft Skills

• Growth Mindset

• Ownership

• Psychological Safety

• Challenge & Support

• Resilience