3 month initial day rate contract
At Hometrack our cloud platform is at the heart of delivering industry leading solutions.
As a Platform Engineer you will be part of taking responsibility for all aspects of our cloud infrastructure and data platforms including the design, operations, infrastructure as code, DevOps pipelines, and helping to define strategies which ensure our products meet the needs of our clients and prospects.
As a Platform Engineer at Hometrack:
- You aid in designing application infrastructure and components to meet product and client requirements
- You will work with Software and Data Engineers to ensure requirements for security, scalability, availability, monitoring, and support are met
- You will aid in assuring that monitoring meet the requirements set for performance, capacity, availability, and security controls in line with ISO-27001
- You will help define DevOps best practises for building, testing, and releasing software components
-You will aid in release coordination covering deployment, configuration and release of software components and systems to various environments
- You will write and maintain infrastructure as code to facilitate automated and consistent creation and management of environments and always be on the lookout for opportunities to simplify and improve.
- As part of the platform team, you will be picking up tickets from our HelpDesk as a 3rd line escalation point for internal and external clients.
Essential skills:
- You will have experience building and supporting Microsoft Azure cloud-based architecture and infrastructure
- Good understanding of basic networking IPv4
- Deep hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and automation tooling including Terraform, Azure DevOps or other DevOps Tools etc.
- Proven track record in supporting cloud-based infrastructure
- Implementing and improving existing solutions aligning with Microsoft Azure well architected framework covering security, capacity, performance, availability and monitoring.
- Supporting daily business BAU services and activities for internal and external clients, including SFTP, Virtual Desktops, BPM software, IAM and other services
- Troubleshooting high-performance and business critical solutions for both API and web-based solutions
- You have strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with an ability to communicate complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders
Preferred skills:
- Relevant experience of commercial infrastructure in the financial services sector
- Previous experience working on an SRE, Platform or DevOps team
- You appreciate simplicity over complexity and understand when to navigate between both
- You are capable of understanding and attributing cloud costs to specific teams and services