Platform Engineer in Redditch

Azure Platform Engineer

• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Linux
• SQL or Oracle

Perm £75,000 – £80,000 per annum plus excellent benefits package

Hybrid working, remote and 2-3 days needed to be onsite in Worcester

You must be eligible for SC Security Clearance, lived and worked in the UK for the past 5 years

Digital Skills are working with a large, Digital business, based in Worcester. The client is growing and are looking for an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to help with migration, optimisation and tuning for an Azure platform.

The client is a private sector organisation, however support Government and Military organisations and as such are looking for candidates who have the ability to undergo SC Security Clearance.

The role:

You will work on Azure infrastructure, helping the client to scale their platform integrating with end client services in an agile way. You will work heavily in Microservices and will be responsible for:

• Designing and managing microservices (Kubernetes)
• Automating using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps.
• Database management (SQL or Oracle)
• Monitoring and troubleshooting
• Supporting customers

This role will be to join a large team who are geographically spread cross the world, however as you will be primarily focused on one UK Government client, you will be based in the UK.

About you:

The role is customer facing, as such you will be a strong communicator, with great interpersonal and written/verbal skills. You will be data savvy and happy working as part of a team, or under your own initiative.

Technical Skills

• Strong Azure Platform/DevOps experience
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Database management experience (SQL or Oracle)
• Familiar with Linux systems
• Experience with databases
• Cloud Security experience and understanding

About the client:

The client is a European company who are undergoing rapid growth. They produce expert Digital Services which are built upon and integrated within Azure. The company offer superb career growth and benefits which include:

Benefits:

• 26 days holiday
• Flexible working
• Generous pension
• Company car/car allowance
• Yearly bonus
• Private Healthcare

Due to the nature of the end client, candidates must be eligible for SC Security Clearance, meaning permanent resident in the UK. Minimum 5 years of continuous living in the UK