platform engineer.

The Platform Engineer will:

• Develop and maintain detailed technical knowledge of the systems and services, including an understanding of business usage. Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical standards and support documentation.

• Develop high-quality DevOps friendly platform components that bake in scalability, fault tolerance and security, providing a measurable benefit in terms of delivery time and risk to help power our digital transformation through our REST APIs and Microservices.

• Proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency by automating existing processes.

• Prioritise your workload and resolve support issues of varying severity within expected time frames. Plan and carry out tasks to ensure timely delivery of services.

• Champion best practices and provides hands-on technical support to accelerate Cloud learning among peers.

• Work with quality assurance specialists to ensure your deliverables have an appropriate level of unit-, integration- and/or functional tests.

• Identify complex risks, issues and improvement opportunities and ensure they are escalated as necessary.

• Identify, analyse, and record, document and manage complex changes in accordance with established ITIL standards and procedures.

• Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders ensuring the governance and security posture of the platform.

• Undertake other activities as directed.

• Ensure that ICT support reference materials are consistently created and maintained including network diagrams, work instructions, quick reference guides and training material.

• These 2 roles will mainly assist/run the lifecycle patching required for our microservice platform, these include tools like EKS, Trivy, Fluentbit, kube-bench, mertic server, Nginx Ingress ect.

Requirements:

• Experience in least one of the following technologies Kubernetes, TerraForm, Kafka and AWS

• Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the lifecycle patching required for our microservice platform

• Knowledge of Cloud environment security best practices

• High level of documentation skills

• Proven ability to work autonomously and cohesively in a team-based environment

• AWS Associate or Professional level certifications highly regarded.

• Current and varied experience across public and private sector is highly desirable.

• Please ensure that any skillsets meeting any of the role specifications are detailed in the candidate’s application.

At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.