Platform Engineering Lead; AWS

An opportunity to work in one of the most forward thinking financial institutions in Great Britain synonmous with being at the technical forefront of the financial services world.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of the most critical teams within the organisation - in their API division which has a far reaching impact on customers - whether b2c or b2b.

• Work for a business that has global impact and purpose - here your work touches on various aspects of the global economy providing opportunties for yourself to work on projects with international significance.
• Career development & growth is critical with the organisation boasting one of the best workplaces and evidence of progressing engineers into senior leadership roles within the bank.
• Our client is recognized as a trialblazer when it comes to technical innovations within the banking world being one of the first to transform customer experience.

The organisation is looking for a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineering specialist with deep understanding & skills across Dev Ops, Site Reliability and AWS Cloud Architecture - joining an existing leadership team you would be joining as the point of reference for this area of the team while also line managing a number of Senior level Platform Engineers & Dev Ops Engineers.

The types of skills we would be looking for:

• Strong AWS experience (IAM, EC2, ECS, RDS, Cloud Watch etc)
• Proficiency with Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with IaC, CI/CD, Jenkins.
• Strong experience with scripting technology such as Python, Powershell & Bash.
• Automation experience with Anssible, Terraform, IaC etc.

From a leadership perspective you will have operated at a Technical lead level (Architect or people leader) and be comfortable taking on 6+ direct reports while also remaining hands on.

Our client operates a flexible working pattern with around 1-2 days a week in office - either Manchester City Centre or their office in South Manchester.

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