Lead Platform Engineer - Leeds

Join to apply for the Lead Platform Engineer – Leeds role at GMA Consulting Hybrid working model – 2-3 days per week in the office The Company The company is a leader in its field and is an Insurance business with an excellent reputation both in the UK and abroad. The Role As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will take ownership of the mission to evolve and build a new Digital Platform that is performant at scale, secure, compliant with internal and industry regulations, and meets availability requirements. You will also work on how change is managed through the technology systems to ensure optimal release frequency, lead time for change, change failure rates, and mean time to resolve. What You Will Be Doing Document existing processes and automate them using software you develop or third-party tools. Build, operate, maintain, and collaborate with Engineering and Architecture teams, optimizing Cloud Infrastructure including Azure PaaS and SaaS components like Salesforce. Work with product engineering teams to recommend development changes. Liaise with internal service providers and product teams to improve speed and reliability of end-to-end solutions and CICD processes. Collaborate with information security teams to implement security policies efficiently and flexibly. Design, build, operate, monitor, and set up alerting for large, complex multi-site B2C and B2B applications. Create comprehensive documentation and software for repeatability. Automate operational processes such as deployments, upgrades, and workflows. Trace issues across systems, working with developers to diagnose root causes. Ensure lifecycle management of monitoring, alerting, and software tools used by internal customers. Work within agile teams, following Scrum or Kanban principles. What You\’ll Bring Expertise in Salesforce environments, with experience using Copado for CI/CD being beneficial. Proven experience with a major cloud PaaS, preferably Azure. Familiarity with Linux and shell scripting. Strong programming skills in C#, PowerShell, scripting languages, JavaScript, Python. Experience with infrastructure platforms such as Azure, Nginx, HAProxy, Consul/etcd, Splunk. Experience with containerization systems like Kubernetes and Docker. Experience with Azure DevOps and managing large-scale software estates, including build, release, monitoring, and high availability. Strong understanding of networking protocols and cloud network design, including VPNs, subnets, regions/zones, and related technologies like Auth0, APIM. Strong database knowledge across relational, graph, and document databases, with various consistency models. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform. This is an excellent opportunity to join a dynamic and successful business. NOTE: YOU MUST HAVE A VALID UK WORK VISA TO APPLY. #J-18808-Ljbffr