Junior Platform Engineer

Role:

We are seeking a Junior Platform Engineer to join our growing team and contribute to the development and maintenance of our platform infrastructure. As a Junior Platform Engineer, you will work closely with senior engineers to deploy, monitor, and scale our cloud-based systems while ensuring reliability and performance.

This is an excellent role for a motivated individual looking to take the next step in their career in a dynamic and fast growing sector. You will enjoy problem solving and working collaboratively to truly understand our environment and ensure the best possible outcomes.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the maintenance of our AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues, ensuring high availability and reliability.
• Implement security best practices and assist in maintaining compliance with industry standards.
• Participate in on-call rotations to respond to system alerts and incidents.
• Document procedures and configurations for knowledge sharing and future reference.
• Stay updated with emerging technologies and industry trends related to cloud computing and infrastructure automation.
• Management of Staging environment to reduce the amount of errors in the Production environment.
• Input into tools and processes to automate the operational activity required to keep the platform running smoothly.

Requirements

Skills:

• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC.
• Experience with Linux based systems.
• Familiarity with monitoring management tools such as Cloudwatch and Nagios.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies.
• Experience of Confluence and Jira is an advantage.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday increasing to 30 days after 2 years
• Private health insurance (after probationary period)
• Share options
• Enhanced Family Leave
• Cycle to work
• Allowance of £50 per month to cover the costs of home-working
• Perkbox: A range of outstanding employee discounts