Job title:
Platform Engineer
Company
Simplyhealth
Job description
Competitive salary + bonus + flexible benefits pot + pension + Healthplan + 36 days holiday + hybrid workingWe’re not just your average health company; we’re aiming to revolutionise access to healthcare in the UK by offering innovative health and wellbeing solutions that are affordable, accessible, and effective. From preventive care to comprehensive medical support, we aim to empower individuals to take charge of their health, inspiring them to make the most of their wellbeing. Added to that we’re the first health insurer in the UK to be awarded B-Corp status in recognition of our significant achievements in sustainability, in addition to our ambitious environmental and social responsibility goals.We’re hiring a Platform Engineer, joining our Infrastructure team and reporting into our Technical Lead.You’ll play a key role in building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that supports software delivery.You’ll deliver reliable, scalable and automated systems that empower development teams- bridging the gap between software development and operations, ensuring seamless deployment and efficient operations.Contributing to the wider business and its operations: You will also be instrumental in building, maintaining, and supporting core infrastructure supporting business critical platforms and services, ensuring the business is able to deliver on its organisational objectives.Responsibilities:Culture:
- Work within Agile teams, participating in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives.
- Collaborate with product owners, engineers, and testers to align platform work with user stories.
- Embrace Agile principles e.g., iterative development, customer feedback, and continuous improvement.
- Embrace the Three Ways of DevOps: Flow, Feedback, and Learning.
- Establish, promote, and enable DevOps practices throughout the technology value-stream.
- Enable the measurement of team performance through the implementation of the DORA 4 Key Metrics.
- Adopt an automation-first approach to platform design, architecture, and delivery.
Flow:
- Develop re-usable and easy to consume infrastructure components (compute, storage, networking) using IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, Ansible).
- Collaborate with architects, stream-aligned teams, and organisation leaders to ensure platforms align with application and/or business requirements.
- Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines for automated software delivery and platform deployment.
- Shift left: Develop composable templates to integrate testing and security scanning, as well as deployment stages, into pipelines and processes.
- Enable and promote continuous deployment practices (blue-green deployments, canary releases, feature flags, A/B testing, Dark Launching).
Feedback:
- Provide comprehensive platform telemetry to deliver continuous feedback for stakeholders.
- Facilitate troubleshooting and performance analysis through platform logging and tracing.
- Collaborate with stream-aligned and support teams to manage incidents and improve reliability.
Security and Compliance:
- Integrate information security into platform components, build pre-blessed reusable templates.
- Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS, FCA) and organizational policies.
- Instrument the platform with security and compliance logging and telemetry to facilitate audit.
- Facilitate the automated and auditable implementation of access controls, encryption, and vulnerability scanning.
Availability, Continuity, Performance and Cost:
- Establish, promote, and implement automation patterns and practices to facilitate and ensure platform and application availability.
- Routinely seek out, elevate, and eliminate frailties within the platform.
- Protect and secure data and information flows.
- Enable and promote platform costs management.
Platform Engineering:
- Embrace a product mindset and a customer-centric, value driven approach.
- Identify, elevate, and eliminate constraints, causes of friction, and toil for stream-aligned teams.
- Develop and maintain a library (or libraries) of pre-blessed ‘Start Right’ templates.
- Provide self-serviced, configurable, and extensible production-like environments that adhere to organisational standards.
- Deliver an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) with guardrails that is easy to consume, secure, and compliant by design
About YouTo be considered, you’ll need to have:Engineering Experience:
- Proficiency in IaC tools and techniques (e.g., Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible, YAML pipelines).
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Familiarity with serverless architectures (e.g., AWS Lambda, Azure Functions).
- Experience with server-based computing, network operating systems (e.g., Windows Server, Linux), and networking
- Experience with software engineering practices (e.g., source code control, code review, CI/CD
DevOps Mindset:
- Understanding of DevOps principles, including automation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Passion for reducing manual toil through automation.
Problem-Solving Orientation:
- Proactive in identifying infrastructure challenges and proposing solutions.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and optimize performance.
Communication Skills:
- Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
Our dream candidate might also have:
- Knowledge of scripting and mark-up languages (e.g., PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML, JSON, XML, HTML).
- Knowledge of development languages and methodologies (e.g., JavaScript frameworks, TypeScript, .Net, REST APIs).
- Knowledge of testing techniques and frameworks (e.g., TDD, BDD, Unit testing, Cucumber, Pester, Cypress).
- Knowledge of Information Security principles, practices, and standards (e.g. OWASP, CIBER, CIS Benchmarks, ISO27001).
What’s in it for you
As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes:
- Group bonus scheme
- Generous pension with a 6% pension gift from us
- 28 days holiday (plus bank holidays) – with the option to buy and sell a further 5 days
- Flexible benefits pot (which you can choose to use against some great benefits such as critical illness, private medical insurance, shopping vouchers and more)
- Your own health plan
- Access to a wellbeing hub
- Shopping discounts
- Recognition awards
- Give as you earn
- 3 volunteering days
We have a head office in Hampshire, but you’ll be able to enjoy our ‘smart working’ approach. This means you can flex when and where you spend your time. For many of us this means day to day work can be handled remotely, but there will also be times when we need to come together in the office to collaborate, attend training sessions, induction, briefings and more.Your Recruitment JourneyWe’re focused on providing an application, assessment and onboarding journey that is fair, consistent, diverse and inclusive for all, allowing us to hire top talent based on the skills and behaviours pivotal to your and our success.Your process
- Application
- Screening call with Talent Acquisition Team
- Virtual Interview with the hiring manager and team
- Technical assessment
- Offer
Should you require any additional support with your application, or need us to make any adjustments for you, please contact our Talent Team: .Please note: Working for a purpose driven company like ours is a fantastic opportunity so we often receive high volumes of applications for our roles. In these cases, we may close our job adverts early and aren’t able to consider applications after this time.#LI-Remote
Expected salary
Location
Andover, Hampshire
Job date
Thu, 24 Oct 2024 03:34:13 GMT
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