Senior Platform Lead

SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER

6 MONTH CONTRACT

LONDON

£550 PD

Role:

My client is searching for a Senior Platform Engineer, your role will be responsible for all aspects of platform design, definition, implementation, operation, support and maintenance. The role will combine elements of platform engineering, build, deployment and operational support across our on premise and cloud estate.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with a team of platform engineers to deliver high quality platform solutions to plan
• Provide oversight and guidance on design and implementation to other team members
• Work with the project manager to estimate and plan deliverables.
• Work with architects to review and challenge designs and deliver supportable platform solutions
• Work with operations manager to implement appropriate operational procedures
• Ensure a strong commitment from the team to continuous improvement of platform development, process and operations
• Ensure SDLC processes are followed for the platform including automation of build, deploy and test processes
• Accountable for ensuring platform and process documentation is appropriate and up to date
• Accountable for production of delivery artefacts and appropriate quality assurances processes are followed
• Accountable for ensuring environments are available so as to support business and development timescales

Essential Skills / Experience:

• Experience of Off-the-shelf package implementation and support
• Experience of bespoke application build implementation and support
• Cloud (AWS) application and infrastructure services: VPC, EC2, S3, IAM
• Development and maintenance of build scripts and use of Jenkins for build automation
• Unix shell scripting in bash / ksh; Windows scripting
• Python development
• Ansible/Chef/Puppet or similar deployment scripting language
• Experience of unit test automation
• Experience of continuous integration/deployment and development techniques
• Exposure to Scrum/Agile delivery methodologies

Desirable Skills / Experience:

• Application development experience using Java or Python
• Package integration experience, connecting solutions to source data repositories
• Understanding of Active Directory, Windows authentication and Kerberos
• Appreciation of Hadoop Big Data technologies: HDFS, YARN, SQOOP, Hive, Impala and general cluster management (Cloudera)
• Powershell development
• Familiarity with ETL concepts and solutions
• Familiarity with scheduling and orchestration tools
• Familiarity with data extraction from 3rd party APIs

If you have the relevant skill set and interested in this position, please either email me your updated CV or call 0207 608 5822

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