Senior Platform Engineer

We are on a mission to build a new cutting-edge developer platform in AWS and migrate existing DBT services from GOV.UK PaaS in the process. Are you up to the challenge of building something new? We need Platform Engineers to ensure our Internet services are hosted on the most performant, secure, and feature-rich platform to enhance the developer experience.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to provide development teams with the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines. You\’ll evangelize product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them.

You will help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on-call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance. Specific projects the team is working on include:

1. Rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response.
2. Streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery.
3. Developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

You will be using:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS CodePipelines and AWS CodeBuild
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache

Disability Confident

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) has a clear mission – to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. We do this in three ways:

1. We help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
2. We open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation, and multilateral agreements.
3. We work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance, and deal-making support to those looking to start up, invest, export, and grow.

The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support us in this mission.

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