Senior Platform Engineer – AWS Manchester, England
Job description
Senior Platform Engineer – AWS
£59,375 plus excellent benefits, including up to 10% matched pension and private health care (Work Level 5)
This is a UK remote first role, with an option to work in the Manchester office for those who want to. You may be asked to occasionally attend meetings in Manchester.
This role is eligible for Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visa sponsorship
Co-op's vision is to co-operate for a fairer world, and collaboration is part of who we are. We work in small, multi-disciplinary teams and run our own delivery and deployments. Working with an Agile approach, we value knowledge sharing so frequently use pairing and ensemble development. We also provide career and technical coaching, and we run communities of practice to support continuous learning.
Platform engineers are a key part of our Digital Technology team here at Co-op. We work within teams to provide leadership around automation, tooling, and cloud infrastructure.
We work closely with developers, QAs, and our internal clients to build solutions to business problems. As a senior platform engineer you are expected to mentor colleagues at all levels within the team (platform and non-platform), work with stakeholders to develop a deep understanding of the problems they face, and challenge existing ideas/approaches.
Our goal is for teams to build simple platforms that provide resilience, security, and performance. Complicated is easy to build and difficult to support. Simple can require more thought but is a worthwhile aim.
Our infrastructure is a healthy mix of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, making the most of Infrastructure as Code. We use both Azure and AWS where appropriate and Terraform to define the infrastructure. We strongly encourage the use of PaaS and SaaS in preference to IaaS.
What you’ll do
- work within product centric teams to effectively deliver infrastructure and support for our websites and APIs
- transform technical requirements into an effective toolchain enabling iterative product delivery
- optimise deployment strategies for products, making sure they are repeatable, scalable, and highly available
- have deep involvement in overall solution design, not simply in the deployment of developer’s code
- participate in 24/7 technical support, as part of a sensible rota (paid overtime)
- provide continuous coaching and mentoring within your team
What you’ll get out of joining us
- opportunities to learn, grow and build a career
- a co-operative team where you can always be your true self
- the ability to work flexibly and remotely, so you can achieve the right balance between work and your personal life
- pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- 10% time for personal learning
- monthly internal conference with the engineering community
- annual bonus and incentive scheme
- private healthcare
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 in line with service) plus bank holidays
- discounts on Co-op products and services
This role would suit people who have
- great communication skills with the ability to collaborate with technical and non-technical colleagues
- significant experience in a hands-on platform engineering role
- proven experience working in an Agile / DevOps environment
- a comprehensive understanding of the full web technology stack (networking, CDNs, HTTPS)
- expertise with Unix/Linux operating systems, scripting, and tooling
- the ability to adapt and learn new technologies
- previous experience coaching and mentoring others within the team
- confidence working with colleagues across the business, at different levels of seniority, influencing and challenging where necessary
Building an inclusive work environment
We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. We want to build inclusive work environments, where our colleagues have equal opportunities to reach their full potential. We celebrate our differences and recognise the importance of our teams reflecting the communities they serve.
If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We’re also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we’ll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.
We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply. If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.
You can find out more about out recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.
