Platform Engineer

At Appvia, we’re on a mission to enable companies to deliver apps in the public cloud with ease and security in mind… to continue our growth trajectory we’re looking for Platform Engineers to join us.We’re expanding our Solutions Engineering team, the customer facing, high level engineering function who support our customers to deliver cloud-native transformations. We’re looking for subject matter experts in their field who can understand and engineer not only what our customers want, but what they actually need.NB: You must either hold active SC, or be eligible for SC:
To have resided in the UK for at least the last 5 years. Have no criminal records. Have no financial irregularities. In this role you'll be: Developing pipelines to deploy code all the way to production with Terraform, using GitHub Actions Managing new demand for platform and application onboarding Assisting application development teams to architect their applications to be cloud native, or helping them transform existing applications to cloud native where possible. Implementing monitoring and alerting Improving security posture of applications being migrated Creating secure deployment patterns and templates/modules for application development teams to reuse. Gathering requirements for building and maintaining a centralised platform for product teams to iterate on their applications in AWS. Setting best practices and policies, especially around microservice architecture Developing, maintaining and operating complex operational tooling (e.g. Kubernetes, Opensearch, prometheus, grafana, Github or equivalent alternative technologies) Assessing customer technical capabilities and upskilling for reduced friction and increased platform adoption. Enhancing operational reliability and scalability of existing products POC’ing new ideas and products, and balancing trade offs between technical, analytical and product needs. Streamlining operational tasks through engineering and automation Improving operational visibility around core products such as tracking technologies, improved metrics etc. Implementing integrations between components to improve the teams way of working Improving knowledge amongst the team through code reviews, documentation, technical guidance and mentoring Reducing the number of DevOps resources in projects by enabling developers to be more self-service About youYou'll have: Experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, SRE or similar Experience deploying in AWS Public Cloud Hands-on experience of operational constraints and common issues from networking, databases and general cloud-based pitfalls Thorough understanding of DevOps practices and tools, including but not limited to; CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes Ability to assess where an organisation is on its cloud-native journey and help guide them and to enable infrastructure-as-code working practices Solid understanding of versioning and best practices of code, artefacts and deployments Development competency ideally in Golang, Ruby or Python and scripting in Bash Experience on building decoupled services with micro-service architecture Understanding of immutable delivery patterns Strong knowledge of continuous integration and deployment practices Good problem resolution skills and understanding of symptoms to identify the root cause, enjoys solving difficult technical problems Ability to prioritise tasks accordingly in relation to customer and business needs In-depth understanding of industry best practices A passion for new technology and automation Strong software engineering principles Great collaboration skills with people of all levels of technical ability An understanding of the importance of being user driven and the benefits of DevOps principles, agile ways of working, collaboration and transparency Good understanding of physical data-centre infrastructure would be advantageous Interview process: Initial conversation with our Talent Acquisition Manager Competency based interview Interview with our COO Why join Appvia?We are a self-funded, London based startup; providing businesses with a fast and secure way to deploy containerised applications into the cloud.We are on a mission to enable organisations to make cloud-based software delivery simple and efficient, whilst having the insights into costs, security and cadence. As a company that holds customers at the heart of everything we do, we are looking for candidates that want to make a real change to how Dev and Ops is working in the industry.With us our customers, like the UK’s Home Office & Bank of England, are harnessing cloud-native technologies, limiting the challenges of infrastructure management and rapidly delivering digital products.What’s on offer?
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