Senior Platform Engineer

£63,824 to £83,778 (including allowances) plus excellent Civil Service benefits and pension

London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford

Hybrid/Flexible working

Join a team at the heart of the global economy! The Department for Business and Trade ("DBT") and Inspire People are partnering together to bring you an exciting opportunity for Senior Platform Engineers. With DBT's migration from GOV.UK PaaS now complete, DBT are entering the next phase: evolving their new AWS-based developer platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

This is your chance to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT by building a performant, secure and developer-friendly hosting environment that underpins vital government services.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will:

- Provide development teams with tools such as observability, monitoring, dashboards, and CI/CD pipelines.

- Design and scale DBT's global product platform.

- Evangelise service-level objectives and negotiate error budgets.

- Participate in an on-call rota (with allowance).

- Drive improvements in developer experience, streamlining deployment and boosting productivity.

Projects include: rolling out an observability tool for system monitoring, automating deployments to reduce downtime, and developing CLI tooling for developers.

You'll work with: AWS, Azure, Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker, ECS/ECR, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Python/Django, PostgreSQL (RDS), Sentry, Redis/Elasticache.

Essential Criteria

- Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.

- Ability to build reliable, well-tested infrastructure as code (eg, Terraform, AWS Copilot, CloudFormation, Pulumi).

- Fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.

- Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP Networking.

- Ability to evaluate user impact of infrastructure and platform changes, with a focus on developer experience.

- In-depth experience of designing solutions to complex technical problems independently.

Desirable: experience designing/implementing Docker images and prototyping with open-source components.

Benefits

- Civil Service pension with average employer contribution of 28.97%

- 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 with service

- Hybrid/flexible working (2-3 days in office per week)

- Three paid volunteering days per year

- Learning and development tailored to your role

- Inclusive culture encouraging diversity

How to Apply

Submit a 2-page CV aligned to the essential criteria. Inspire People will review applications against these requirements before progressing to DBT hiring managers. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview and complete a technical problem-solving exercise.

Security Clearance

This role requires SC clearance. To be eligible, you must have been resident in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years Failure to meet SC criteria will result in withdrawal of your application.

If you are a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer or SRE looking to enhance your career and make a difference across government digital services, apply today or contact Keesha Paulsen at Inspire People in confidence for more information.