Senior Platform Engineer - Department for Business and Trade - G7

Komeet Technologies; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - GBP 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech firm in Greater London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance its Platform-as-a-Service offering. You will be responsible for equipping development teams with tools to optimize performance, streamline deployment processes, and create automation through CLI tools. The successful candidate will have experience with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, and container management. This role offers a chance to participate in a transformative project impacting digital service delivery across government.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure cloud platforms.
• Expertise in CI/CD using AWS tools like Code Pipelines and Code Build.
• Proficient in Python and Django framework for backend development.

Responsibilities

• Provide development teams with necessary tools for efficient workflows.
• Evangelize product teams on service-level indicators and objectives.
• Develop CLI tools for automation and improve developer productivity.

Skills

AWS expertise

CI/CD knowledge

Container management

Observability tools

Python programming

Tools

AWS Code Pipelines

Docker

Terraform

PostgreSQL

Job description

We’ve successfully completed the migration of DBT services from PaaS to our new developer platform in AWS. Now, we’re entering the next phase: evolving this platform into a full Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering.

Are you ready to help shape the future of digital delivery at DBT?

We’re looking for Platform Engineers to help us build the most performant, secure, and feature-rich hosting environment possible, one that puts developer experience front and centre. This is your chance to be part of something transformative, where your work will directly impact how digital services are built and run across government.

Main responsibilities

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will work to give development teams the tools for their job, including application performance monitoring, exception, log and metrics aggregation, dashboards, and declarative CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous delivery) pipelines.

You’ll evangelise product teams about service-level indicators, objectives, and error budgets, and negotiate them. You’ll help build and scale our global product platform and participate in an on‑call rota for which you will receive an additional allowance.

Specific projects the team are working on include rolling out an observability tool to enhance system monitoring and incident response, streamlining deployment processes to reduce downtime and speed up feature delivery, and developing a CLI tool to automate tasks and boost developer productivity.

You will be using:

• Amazon Web Services
• Azure
• AWS Code Pipelines and AWS Code Build
• Terraform & AWS Copilot (CloudFormation)
• Docker, Elastic Container Service (ECS) and Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
• ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
• Python and Django framework
• PostgreSQL as a service (Amazon RDS)
• Sentry
• Redis/Elasticache