Platform Automation Engineer

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Role Introduction

We are looking for a
Senior Platform Ops Engineer
with deep technical expertise and strong leadership skills to independently drive automation, efficiency, and governance within our DevOps and Toolchain squad. This pivotal role supports SREs and development teams in building scalable, secure, and optimised CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate excels in toolchain standardisation, infrastructure improvements, and reducing manual operations, while also mentoring teams and promoting DevOps best practices across the engineering organisation.

What You Will Do

• Infrastructure Management: Design, deploy, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Automation & CI/CD: Develop and manage automation pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or similar.
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting: Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging to ensure the reliability and performance of systems. Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in a timely manner.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Manage containerization using Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes or other similar tools.
• Security & Compliance: Work closely with the security team to implement security best practices across infrastructure and application layers, including vulnerability assessments, IAM policies, and encryption.
• Collaboration: Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure that applications and services are optimized, scalable, and aligned with the company's goals.
• Documentation & Best Practices: Create and maintain clear documentation of infrastructure, automation processes, and internal tools. Advocate and ensure the use of best practices for code and infrastructure deployment.
• Mentorship: Provide guidance and mentorship to junior DevOps engineers, helping them grow their skills and experience.
• Innovation: Keep up to date with the latest industry trends and technologies and apply them to enhance the current DevOps practices and infrastructure.

What You Will Have

• Must Have Skill

• 6-10 years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles.

• Deep knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their services.
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab, CircleCI) and version control (e.g., Git).
• Experience with containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration tools (Kubernetes, ECS, EKS).
• Expertise in scripting languages such as Bash, Python, or Go.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Experience with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or ELK Stack.
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

What We Do For You

• Wellbeing focused - Our people are our greatest assets, and ensuring everyone feels their best self to come to work is integral.
• Annual Leave - 20 days of annual leave, plus public holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme - Free advice, support, and confidential counselling available 24/7.
• Personal Growth - We're committed to enabling your growth personally and professionally through development programmes.
• Life Insurance - 2x annual salary
• Personal Accident Insurance - providing cover in the event of serious injury/illness.
• Performance Bonus - Our Group-wide bonus scheme enables you to reap the rewards of your success.

Who We Are

OneAdvanced is one of the UK's largest providers of business software and services serving 20,000+ global customers with an annual turnover of £330M+. We manage 1.5 million 111 calls per month, support over 2 million Further Education learners across the UK, handle over 10 million wills, and so much more. Our mission is to
power the world of work
and, as you can see, our software underpins some of the UK's most critical sectors.

We invest in our brilliant people. They are at the heart of our success as we strive to be a diverse, inclusive and engaging place to work that not only powers the world of work, but empowers the growth, ambitions and talent of our people.