Platform and DevOps Engineer

About the Job you are considering:

We are seeking a highly skilled Platform and Dev Ops Engineer to engineer and support the delivery platform deployment automation and operational controls that underpin entitlement authorization and event driven services The successful candidate will play a critical role in embedding security reliability observability and quality into the software delivery lifecycle enabling engineering teams to build test deploy and operate applications through consistent and automated pathways.

Hybrid working:

The places that you work from day to day will vary according to your role, your needs, and those of the business; it will be a blend of Company offices, client sites, and your home; noting that you will be unable to work at home 100% of the time.

Your Role:

Design build and maintain robust Git Lab CICD pipelines covering build testing security scanning artifact promotion and multi environment deployments

Develop and manage Helm charts and reusable deployment configurations for Java services OPA Envoy and supporting platform components

Build maintain and troubleshoot Docker images Docker Compose environments container networking and runtime configurations

Implement and enhance platform observability through metrics dashboards alerting structured logging and distributed tracing

Integrate security and quality controls including SAST container scanning dependency scanning code quality analysis and vulnerability management

Automate secure configuration management secrets handling certificate deployment and compliance evidence generation

Design deployment resilience strategies including rollback mechanisms circuit breakers high availability and disaster recovery controls

Support performance tuning capacity planning and operational optimization across policy engines event streaming platforms and application services

Collaborate with engineering security architecture and operations teams to deliver secure scalable and resilient platform capabilities

Promote Dev Ops best practices automation first principles and continuous improvement across the engineering organization

Your

Skills:

Strong experience in Platform Engineering Dev Ops Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering SRE roles

Proven expertise in Git Lab CICD pipeline engineering release automation and artifact promotion strategies

Handson experience with Docker Helm containerized platforms Kubernetes and or Open Shift Strong  understanding of Java Spring Boot applications and the ability to troubleshoot service deployments and runtime issues

Practical experience with Apache Kafka including operational monitoring and troubleshooting of event driven systems

Expertise in observability platforms such as Prometheus Grafana Cloud Watch Open Telemetry Observe or equivalent tooling

Experience implementing structured logging distributed tracing W3C Trace Context and application monitoring frameworks

Strong knowledge of integrating security scanning code quality controls container security and dependency management into CICD pipelines

Experience supporting and managing distributed systems within enterprise production environments

Familiarity with Test Driven Development TDD principles and automated quality assurance practices

Experience leveraging AI assisted engineering tools such as Claude Code Git Hub Copilot or equivalent technologies while applying appropriate governance and validation

Preferred Skills

Experience with Infrastructure as Code Terraform Cloud Formation or equivalent

Knowledge of Vault or enterprise grade secrets management platforms

Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering SRE principles Service Level Indicators SLIs Service Level Objectives SLOs and operational resilience practices

Experience supporting highly…