Lead Platform Engineer Peterlee Tech Ops & Architecture

Join Everflow, the leading technology-led utilities company revolutionizing the industry with environmentally friendly water supply and waste collection services for UK SMEs.

As a market leader in software innovation and carbon offsetting, we simplify utilities for our customers, enabling them to focus on business growth. Our exponential growth has earned us recognition as one of Europe's fastest-growing companies, and we value our employees' contributions.

We offer hybrid working, private healthcare, flexible working hours, 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) with the option of buying / selling extra days. We also offer one day, every two weeks for you to take time for your personal development.

The key to our success is our people and we like to reward everyone for their efforts. We have afternoon drinks on a Friday, free monthly breakfasts and a generous incentive scheme that gives employees a chance to earn rewards.

For those who like to come into the office we have Friday afternoon drinks, free breakfasts plus a games room.

The Position

We are seeking a strategic thinking and collaborative Lead Platform Engineer. This is a leadership role where you will display and be our values as you will be responsible for a dedicated platform engineering team and represent Technology across the business.

While being responsible for the design and implementation of a secure platform strategy, you will also be responsible for supplier relationship management while assisting to forecast and monitor budgeted costs.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about communication and collaboration, continual improvement and will possess a 'can do' approach to their work.

You will have an automation-first approach to delivery, which considers security at every layer, and be able to design efficient cloud-based solutions.

We are a Microsoft-house with a focus on being cloud agnostic through evolution in our technology and tooling approaches. You will need to be familiar with Azure native, serverless, as well as Kubernetes. You will also be familiar with complex network infrastructure, which will consider governance and integration of modern identity in a secure hybrid-cloud scenario.

While your primary focus will be on Azure in the Cloud, if you have any Amazon Web Services (AWS) knowledge to help with our business continuity plans, this would be a good advantage.

What You Will Be Doing

• Responsible for a small platform engineering team, conducting 1:1s, coaching and mentoring, including management of skills.

• Setting out the platform strategy including design of secure cloud solutions working alongside our Enterprise and Solution Architects becoming the steward of our cloud infrastructure.

• Be a leader in relation to Information Security, especially in cyber security and DevSecOps, providing advice and support to colleagues around the business.

• Take a lead in continual delivery following an automation-first approach, including how we deploy software by designing CI/CD pipelines.

• Promoting and maintaining good practice in relation to engineering principles, including TDD,

DRY & SOLID, to safeguard code quality and overall system design.

• Evaluating new technologies to improve efficiency, security, and scalability

• Building out proofs-of-concept to support technology evaluation or product pipeline research.

• Providing expertise in enterprise level authentication security

• Providing out of hours support such as for deployments and other potentially business disruptive works.

What We're Looking For

• Demonstrable experience in leading a team, and managing budgets and suppliers, collaborating with Technology and Business roles to deliver strategic business outcomes.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps and Cloud Native Infrastructure Development with significant focus on Azure.

• 3+ years of experience in Cloud Security / DevSecOps including associated tooling.

• 3+ years of experience in developing software in C#, leveraging MAC architecture principles. We use .Net Framework, .Net Core and .Net 8.

• 3+ years of experience in working with Azure DevOps

• Expertise in Kubernetes (Azure), Cloud Compute, Storage and Networking.

• Experienced in working with Azure CAF and Azure well-architected/secure frameworks.

• Experience in designing and deploying cloud infrastructure using Azure Enterprise Landing Zones (ELZ), Azure Policy, Azure Local/HCI stack.

• Proficiency in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Familiarity with other IaC tools such as Bicep.

• Knowledge of SOLID principles and their application in DevOps.

• Strong scripting and automation skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python, YAML).

• Strong familiarity with Linux based operating systems for build servers and containerised deployment.

• Familiarity with Azure B2C or federated account security is highly recommended.

• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to lead complex projects.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Familiarity with Software Development practices in an Agile setting.

• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for business continuity would be an advantage.

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Up to £80,998.54

Hours

37.5

Salary Reviews: Benefit from annual salary reviews.

Pension: Enjoy a secure financial future with up to 7% employer pension contribution.

Career Development: Continuous support, personalised development, and top-notch training to fuel your professional journey.

Bonuses: Opportunity to earn extra with quarterly awards and annual bonuses.

Recognition: An amazing reward and recognition system that allows you to redeem gift cards for being recognised.

Annual Leave: Recharge with a generous annual leave of 25 days plus bank holidays.

Buy or Sell Holidays: Flexibility to buy or sell up to 5 days of annual leave.

Celebration Day: Enjoy an extra day of annual leave to celebrate a day that is special to you.

Life Insurance: Enjoy comprehensive life insurance covering you up to 3x your salary.

Enhanced Parental Leave: Benefit from up to 26 weeks of paid maternity leave or 4 weeks of paid paternity leave.

Health & Wellbeing: Access well-being perks, including a health care cash plan allowing you to claim up to £70 cashback for dental, optical & physio.

Office Facilities: Take advantage of our free onsite gym, 20% café discount, pool table, ping pong table, and arcade machine.

Hybrid Working: Embrace the flexibility of working at home 3 days per week once you've conquered the probationary period.

Free Breakfast: Enjoy fruit, breakfast, tea, and coffee served daily, as well as our monthly breakfast buffet.

Social Events: Look forward to a vibrant social calendar, including summer & Christmas parties, as well as regular team social events.

Friday Drinks: Wind down on Fridays with afternoon drinks, a perfect segue into the weekend.

Free Parking: Simple, convenient.

Electric Car Scheme: Dive into the future with our electric car scheme-because we're driving towards sustainability.

Cycle to Work Scheme: Utilise our salary sacrifice scheme to promote health, save money and reduce emissions in your daily commute.