PLATFORM TEAM LEAD ENGINEER
Flowbird delivers solutions for smart cities on the move. Active in 60 countries and our Smart Transport solutions can be seen in world-class cities including London, Edinburgh, Paris, New York, Sydney, Rome, Brussels and Toronto. Our systems and equipment already facilitate management and mobility processes in more than 5,000 cities and more than 1,300 employees and 90 jobs make up the group's skills.
Our market leadership is underpinned by a continuous drive to innovate and push the frontiers of what is possible in order to make our customers more successful. As a result, we are a thriving business that is investing strongly and building the team for both new opportunities and supporting existing ones.
Location:
Our UK headquarters is based in Poole on the Dorset coast with its bustling quay, some of the best beaches in the UK and a stunning natural harbour. There is easy access to the Dorset countryside, the New Forest and the spectacular Jurassic Coast. Our main office is 1 mile from Poole railway station with good public transport links and close to both Bournemouth and Southampton international airports.
Summary:
Flowbird, Poole is seeking a Platform Team Lead Engineer to join the Platform/DevOps team, which supplies Smart Transport solutions around the world. Primary customers are government bodies operating transport systems who increasingly are wanting a service-based offering for their solutions.
The successful candidate will fill an exciting role in the growth areas of the company. Flowbird requires an experienced Platform Engineer who can demonstrate previous experience of leading companies through successful cloud migrations and implementations. You should be an avid fan of technology, constantly keeping abreast of change in this ever-changing domain.
Through an expert knowledge of cloud computing platforms (SaaS, IaaS & PaaS) you will help guide and be involved in development of our cloud platform. You will have excellent interpersonal skills as this role will mean working alongside many teams throughout the product lifecycle, from design phase through to the live operation. You will be able to demonstrate an intimate knowledge in how to build reliable, highly available systems which fulfil the needs of the business and dovetail with the development team to ensure overall system excellence.
Responsibilities:
- Oversee and review the Day-To-Day JIRA and ServiceNow incidents being raised into the Platform team and guide the daily Stand-Up meeting accordingly.
- Own the cloud Infrastructure from design through to deployment and operation.
- Be the local expert and evangelist on IaC, promoting through all teams.
- Be responsible for the reliability of the SaaS platform that will be our main growth area.
- Work with various project stakeholders to ensure that all requirements are understood and fed into a single product view.
- Work with architects and engineering to ensure that the system (platform and software) adheres to the qualities as stated in the architectural description.
- Work with various teams to ensure that the CI/CD pipeline for IaC works as seamlessly as the code pipeline.
Participate:
- Work closely with the Engineering and Product teams to provide an operational voice being present throughout the lifecycle.
- Be a key participant into the DevOps working group within Flowbird.
- Proactively seeking to enhance DevOps culture by removing silos between traditional functional teams.
- Work closely with the software and architecture teams to collaboratively define patterns for software which work with the platform to achieve required system qualities.
Experience:
- Have proven experience building highly available, reliable platforms which support enterprise applications.
- You should have experience of best practices in terms of abstractions so that the primary focus shall be on a SaaS offering, but deployments can still be made locally for those customers who have a requirement to do so.
- Have experience of securely connecting to physical devices which are deployed around the world.
- Strong candidates will have experience of how to craft environments that support good practices for the development team such as auto scaling, blue green deployments, auto failover etc.
- Knowledge of tools and practices to ensure that the platform is up to date in terms of security patching and CVE monitoring.
- Securing multi tenanted cloud environments, including integrations to multiple on premise locations.
- Ideally be certified against at least one cloud provider.
- Ideally have experience of multiple regional deployments to facilitate data residency requirements
- Have a working knowledge of Cyber-Security aspects and cloud resilience.
Core Skills:
- In depth knowledge of cloud architecture patterns and principles (e.g. Microservices, 12 Factor app, Enterprise integration Patterns) and best practice
- Be an expert in at least one cloud provider and its associated IaC scripting language (this can include Terraform)
- Docker orchestration tools; Rancher, Kubernetes, Helm, Tiller etc.
- Monitoring solutions for cloud environments, to proactively alert operations on unusual situations
- Provisioning tools such as Ansible etc.
- Service Discovery; Consul, Vault etc.
- Excellent time management and working to deadlines.
Behavioural Factors:
- Ability to informally lead and drive cultural changes through the organisation
- Be able to mentor other team members who wish to become involved in building our infrastructure
- Be able to ensure best practice whilst juggling customer commitments
- Capable of making decisions independently
- Self-motivated, self-starting
- Instinctive problem solver
- Attention to detail
- Willing to apply skill set to other added value activities
Company Benefits include:
- 25 days holiday, plus Bank holidays, with the option to buy or sell days
- Up to 6% contributory Company pension scheme
- Life assurance of x4 annual salary
- Health Cash Plan
- Discounted gym membership with a company subsidy
- Six months Company sick pay
- Employee discounts
- Employee assistance programme available 24/7
- Flexible Benefits platform giving you the option to purchase additional benefits including critical illness cover, additional life assurance, dental insurance, health screening, cycle to work scheme, personal car leasing, breakdown cover, purchase of technology
- Paid Employee Volunteering days
- Hybrid working
- Additional Maternity / Paternity leave
- Free onsite car parking
- Free tea/coffee
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