Platform Engineer, Central Platform Development

We are seeking a Platform Engineer, Central Platform Development to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 8+ years of IT experience, with 3+ years in software development, and a deep understanding of platform technologies such as Elastic Observability, Grafana Observability, or ITRS Geneos.

Requirements

• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or Information Systems or equivalent applicable experience
• Software development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration (Git/SVN), continuous deployment (Azure Pipelines), and deployment orchestration (Chef, puppet, or equivalent)
• Demonstrated ability using and administering (core to advanced knowledge) of 2 or more of the following technologies: AWS EC2 / EKS / AKS deployments, Confluent and/or Apache Kafka administration, ADO / Devops tools, Unix / Windows Administration, OpenTelemetry Metrics, Logs, Tracing, Prometheus / Alert Manager, Synthetic Monitoring libraries, APM tools such as Elastic APM or others
• Experience with Shell scripting, Java, Python or Ruby
• Experience with Web Technologies (Apache, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, XML)
• Experience with network protocols and certificate management
• Intermediate understanding of the IT & Network infrastructure
• Intermediate troubleshooting knowledge
• Experience with Agile and Lean methodologies
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal and presentation skills
• ITOM/ITSM Integration experience. ServiceNow ITOM (Event Mgmt. & Operational Intelligence) experience Strong people management experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing
• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning