Staff Platform Engineer – Cloud Engineering in Belfast

The Platform Engineering team is a collection of highly skilled individuals ranging from development to operations with a security first mindset who strive to push the boundaries of technology. We champion a DevSecOps culture and raise the bar on how and when we deploy applications to production. Our core principles are centered around automation, testing, quality, and immutability all via code. If you are passionate about developer productivity, cloud native applications, and container orchestration, this job is for you! Discover what it’s like to be part of a fast paced team dealing with challenging problems that drive the global economy where engineers can do the best work of their life alongside colleagues that share a similar passion.

The role is responsible for building self-service capabilities that improve our security posture, productivity, and reduce time to market with automation at the core of these objectives. The individual collaborates with teams across the organization to ensure applications are designed for Continuous Delivery (CD) and are well-architected for their targeted platform which can be on-premise or the cloud.

Principal Accountabilities

• The incumbent is a key leader on the team who manages their direct reports to grow their skill sets and careers. The individual has a proven track record of building and managing highly effective teams.

Experience & Software requirements

• Architect and Implement: Build and maintain scalable IaaS (Infrastructure as Service) and PaaS (Platform as Service) solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Drive Automation: Champion an "automation-first" mindset, replacing manual tasks with code-driven solutions to reduce toil.
• Standardize IaC: Lead the development, versioning, and lifecycle management of Terraform modules to ensure consistent deployments.
• Manage Image Lifecycles: Utilize Packer to automate the creation and maintenance of secure, compliant machine images.
• Optimize CI/CD: Design and manage Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for seamless infrastructure delivery.
• Secure the Platform: Integrate secrets management (HashiCorp Vault or cloud-native managers) and manage identity via SAML/SSO.
• Code Quality: Govern Git workflows, including branching strategies and performing rigorous Peer Reviews (PRs) for infrastructure code.
• Operational Excellence: Improve system reliability, observability, and performance through proactive engineering and troubleshooting.
• Mentor and Collaborate: Work closely with cross-functional teams like networking and SREs to gather requirements and manage deliverables.
• Experience with project management and tracking tools such as JIRA and Remedy.
• Ability to clearly communicate deadlines, understand the feasibility of meeting them, and be able to communicate when there are challenges.
• Ability to deliver strong constructive feedback when needed, as well as being able to reward top performers.
• Experience with a language such as Ruby, Perl, Python, Go, Scala, or Java.
• Experience with Jenkins, Maven, Git, Ansible, or CHEF.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Experience with Windows.
• 5+ years industry experience in a 24x7 application delivery environment.
• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a BS in Computer Science, IS, or 7+ years of relevant work experience.
• Preferred Certifications: AWS, GCP, or other cloud / DevSecOps related certifications / Certified Scrum Master, Lean/Kanban, PMI-ACP, PMP.

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