Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") bring an exciting opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers to work on critical platforms that support how digital services are built and operated across the organisation. You will contribute to scaling a major AWS global product platform and provide development teams with the tools they need to build, deploy and operate services effectively.

£63,824 - £83,778 (dependant on location) plus 29% pension contribution and other excellent Civil Service benefits. Flexible, hybrid working from 7 UK locations.

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Government Digital and Data (GDaD) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

DBT have now successfully completed the migration of DBT services from  PaaS to a new developer platform in AWS. Now, they're entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT?

We're looking for Platform Engineers to help DBT build the most performant, secure and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre. This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital services are built and run across government.

If you would like to find out more about the role, the Platform Engineering team and what it's like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually "meet the team" on Tuesday 17th February at 12:30pm. Follow application page for instructions to book your virtual seat.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You'll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You'll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.

Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS Code Pipelines and AWS Code Build
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (Cloud Formation)
• Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• Elastic Search/Open Search
• Python and Django framework
• Postgre
  
  SQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

• Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud
• Ability to build code-defined, reliable and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems - IaC (e.g. Terraform, AWS Copilot, Cloud Formation, Pulumi)
• Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages to write clean and effective code (e.g. Python/Django/Java)
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking
• Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turn
• Exposure to code testing / knowledge of TDD
• Experience working in an Agile environment and designing solutions to complex technical problems independently

• Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
• Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components

In return, you can expect a planned, transparent progression with learning and development tailored to your role, an environment with flexible working options and a culture encouraging inclusion and diversity, plus the following benefits:

• An excellent Civil Service pension scheme…