Platform Engineering Lead

Payroll Software & Services Group

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

We are looking for a senior, hands-on Platform / DevOps engineer to take technical ownership of the production infrastructure supporting our SaaS products. This is primarily a technical ownership role rather than a people-management role. The successful candidate will consolidate responsibilities currently distributed across several development teams and establish consistent standards for infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, security, recovery and production support.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on AWS experience.
• Terraform essential, including modules, state management, standards and controlled infrastructure changes.
• Building and maintaining automated deployment pipelines; experience with tools such as CircleCI, Azure Pipelines or equivalent.
• VPC/VNET, routing, DNS, load balancers, firewalls, security groups and connectivity.
• Operational experience with SQL Server/Azure SQL, PostgreSQL/Aurora and/or MySQL availability, security, backup and recovery rather than application query development.
• Datadog, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, GCP Monitoring or equivalent; proactive alerting and production health monitoring.
• SSO, cloud IAM, privileged/JIT access, service accounts and secrets management.
• Cloud hardening, least privilege, vulnerability remediation, certificates and secure production access.
• Backup strategy, restore testing, failover, RTO/RPO and disaster-recovery planning.
• Strong incident-management skills, root-cause analysis, runbooks and P1 production support.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally also Azure and/or GCP with the ability to own a multi-cloud estate.
• AWS ECS, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Aurora, DynamoDB and Cognito.
• Azure App Services, Azure SQL and Azure Storage.
• GCP App Engine, Cloud SQL, Datastore and Cloud Storage.
• Windows Server, RDP/RDWeb and mixed Windows/Linux estates.
• Ansible or other configuration-management tooling.
• Rollbar and application/infrastructure logging.
• Cloud cost optimisation and capacity management.

Responsibilities

• Take technical ownership of the production infrastructure supporting our SaaS products.
• Consolidate responsibilities currently distributed across several development teams.
• Establish consistent standards for infrastructure, deployment, monitoring, security, recovery and production support.

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional development
• Competitive bonus structures
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements
• Employer matched pension contribution to 5%
• Wellbeing support through our company-funded health plan, health checks and employee assistance program
• Onsite parking
• Invaluable learning opportunities to propel their careers forward
• Continuous employee training

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed