Platform Operations Engineer Full Time

Bristol, Somerset
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Role: Platform Operations Engineer

Location: Bristol | hybrid

Salary: c. £70,000 + bonus + good pension + share options + private health

Key Responsibilities:

Support, maintain and improve highly scalable and reliable cloud platform infrastructure services, alongside day to day operations of the Cloud Platform and be accountable for its availability. Continuous improvement is a key ethos of the team and is organised into run and build squads, responsible for day to day monitoring/support and continuous improvement opportunities to enhance and optimise the services they offer.

Experience required:

• Cloud experience with AWS ideally (Azure is OK)
• Linux admin experience (preferably Red Hat) or similar
• Proficient with Terraform and IaC
• Exposure to Agile software development methodologies (Automation, CI/CD etc)

Nice to have:

• Comfortable Scripting with one or more of the following: Python, Perl or Shell (they use Python most often)
• Experience with container technologies using Docker and Kubernetes
• Automating configuration management (eg Ansible, Chef, Puppet or Salt)

Why you would be interested:

• Tech for good – have a genuine positive impact on peoples lives
• Great culture and genuine people
• Opportunity to work on lots of different projects (and alternate teams) eg POCs/Changes to K8s/Spinning up new DBs/self service/automate/OSP Patching