Job position Senior Platform Engineer - DBT - G7
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As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams 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 evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll 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 are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and 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
Candidate profile
It is essential that you have:
Cloud experience with either Amazon Web Services, Azure or Google Cloud
Ability to build code-defined, reliable, and well tested infrastructure on top of cloud computing systems (e.g. Terraform, AWS Copilot, CloudFormation, Pulumi)
Experience and fluency in one or more programming languages (e.g., writing clean and effective code)
Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking
Ability to see user impact in the infrastructure and platform changes, including a drive to improve the Developer Experience at every turn
In depth experience of designing solutions to complex technical problems independently
It is desirable that you have:
Experience in designing and implementing Docker images through containerisation
Experience in prototyping through reuse of existing Open-Source components
Working environment
Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London, Salford
About the jobJob summaryIf you would like to find out more about the role, the Platform Engineering team and what it’s like to work at DBT, we are holding a Hiring Manager Q&A session for this role where you can virtually 'meet the team' on Friday 17th October at 12:30pm. Please click to book your spot.
About us
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.
Firstly, we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly.
Secondly, we open international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements.
Finally, 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.
About the role
We’ve successfully completed the migration of DBT services from PaaS to our new developer platform in AWS. Now, we’re entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.
Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT?
We’re looking for Platform Engineers to help us build the most performant, secure, and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre. This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital
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Senior Platform Engineer - DBT - G7
Government Digital & Data
