Platform Engineer

  • Job Reference: 10096049
  • Date Posted: 22 April 2024
  • Employer: Capita plc
  • Location: Greater London, England
  • Salary: On Application
  • Sector: Engineering, I.T. & Communications
  • Job Type: Full Time

Job Description

We're currently recruiting for a Platform Engineer to join our Capita One Team!

This is a hands-on role within an established cloud platforms operations and engineering team.

The team is responsible for defining, building and managing the core platforms and technologies that our development and product teams use to deliver highly available, scalable and reliable systems to our users, primarily hosted in Azure.

What you'll be doing:

  • work in a small agile team that creates our core infrastructure platforms
  • collaborate with teammates to produce high quality solutions
  • work with our architecture team to define our infrastructure/cloud technology roadmap
  • work with our development teams to optimise our deployment pipelines, and help them transition to the cloud
  • continually improve the reliability of our systems
  • contribute to code reviews to keep quality high and technical debt as low as possible
  • play a part in out of hours support and maintenance of the platform

What we're looking for:

  • experience with Infrastructure-as-code tools and approach
  • experienced in programming/scripting with PowerShell and/or BASH
  • experienced in Linux and Windows system administration
  • experience with cloud environments (Microsoft Azure)
  • experience with containers and Kubernetes
  • good understanding of networking, including TCP/IP, HTTP, SMTP and DNS
  • network skills including firewalls, routing, load balancers and VPNs

If you're passionate about cloud operations and engineering, like creating highly automated environments and have relevant skills and experience, please consider applying even if you don't think you tick every box.

About Capita One

At Capita One, we're keeping society moving. Our technology is helping deliver public and community services which make the difference to children, young people and families. We're partnering with 120 local authorities and 200 of the UK's largest housing providers to support them with everything from social housing to social care, benefits and payments. Our team is passionate about people and many of them have come to us directly from local authorities and the public sector. Join us and discover better ways to support people in achieving happy, fulfilled lives.

What's in it for you?

  • a competitive basic salary between 40,000-45,000 depending on experience
  • 23 days' holiday (rising to 27 ) with the opportunity to buy extra leave
  • home-based role with occasional travel
  • the opportunity to take a paid day out of the office, volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice
  • company matched pension, life assurance, a cycle2work scheme, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks and plenty more
  • voluntary benefits designed to suit your lifestyle, from discounts on retail and socialising, to health & wellbeing, travel and technology
  • access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform

What we hope you'll do next:

Choose 'Apply now' to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

We're an equal opportunity and Disability Confident employer, which means we recruit and develop people based on their merit and passion. We're committed to providing an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment process and working environment for everyone. If you need the job description or application form in an alternative format (such as large print or audio), or if you'd like to discuss other changes or support you might need going forward, please email Iqbal at reasonableadjustments@capita.com or call 07784 237318 and we'll get back to you. For more information about equal opportunities and process adjustments, please visit the Capita Careers website.