Role Details
To provide high level technical support capabilities for the Microservice and Event Driven Platform which is hosted in the Cloud. The MEDA Platform is a collection of modern information technology tools and practices that will enable accelerated delivery of customer-oriented flexible business solutions. It offers numerous benefits of microservices architecture, including easier deployment and testing, improved productivity, flexibility, and scalability of applications.
Platform Engineer Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain detailed technical knowledge of the systems and services, including an understanding of business usage. Contribute to the development and maintenance of technical standards and support documentation.
- Develop high‐quality DevOps‐friendly platform components that bake in scalability, fault tolerance and security, providing a measurable benefit in terms of delivery time and risk to help power our digital transformation through REST APIs and microservices.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve efficiency by automating existing processes.
- Prioritise your workload and resolve support issues of varying severity within expected time frames. Plan and carry out tasks to ensure timely delivery of services.
- Champion best practices and provide hands‐on technical support to accelerate cloud learning among peers.
- Work with quality assurance specialists to ensure your deliverables have an appropriate level of unit, integration and/or functional tests.
- Identify complex risks, issues and improvement opportunities and ensure they are escalated as necessary.
- Identify, analyse, document and manage complex changes in accordance with established ITIL standards and procedures.
- Maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the governance and security posture of the platform.
- Undertake other activities as directed.
- Ensure that ICT support reference materials are consistently created and maintained, including network diagrams, work instructions, quick reference guides and training material.
- These two roles will mainly assist/run lifecycle patching for our microservice platform, covering tools such as EKS, Trivy, Fluentbit, kube‐bench, metric server, Nginx Ingress, etc.
Requirements
- Experience with at least one of the following technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, Kafka, or AWS.
- Demonstrable knowledge and experience in the lifecycle patching required for our microservice platform.
- Knowledge of cloud workplace security best practices.
- High level of documentation skills.
- Proven ability to work autonomously and cohesively in a team‐based environment.
- AWS Associate or Professional level certifications highly regarded.
- Current and varied experience across public and private sectors is highly desirable.
- Please ensure that any skillsets meeting any of the role specifications are detailed in the candidate's application.
At Randstad, we are passionate about providing equal employment opportunities and embracing diversity to the benefit of all. We actively encourage applications from any background.
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