Platform Engineer

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Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity, protecting nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI platform.

Job Description

In this role, you\’ll play a key part in ensuring our cloud infrastructure is robust, scalable, and optimized for performance, collaborating closely with development teams to deliver secure and efficient solutions.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure meets their requirements while promoting scalable application practices.
• Utilise expertise in container orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) to facilitate seamless deployment of applications, prioritising reliability, observability, and performance.
• Stay current with the latest technologies, introduce innovative solutions, and address operational challenges through strategic automation and optimisation.
• Support the deployment and scaling of our global cloud applications.
• Advise development teams on optimizing the use of public cloud resources.
• Support new applications as they transition to production.

Qualifications

• Essential skills in scripting or application development, with proficiency in Python.
• Familiarity with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation and with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Strong understanding of basic networking and security principles, and ability to methodically solve problems and analyse patterns in behaviour and logs.
• Experience with continuous integration systems such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Jenkins.
• Proficiency in working with source control.
• Strong communication skills.

Benefits

• 23 days’ holiday + all public holidays, rising to 25 days after 2 years of service.
• Additional day off for your birthday.
• Private medical insurance covering you, your cohabiting partner and children.
• Life insurance of 4 times your base salary.
• Salary sacrifice pension scheme.
• Enhanced family leave.
• Confidential Employee Assistance Program.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Seniority Level

• Entry level

Employment Type

• Full-time

Job Function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Computer and Network Security

Location: London, England, United Kingdom.