Senior Platform Engineer

We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local government to central government, to education, to health and care, over 5,000 public bodies across the globe use our software to help provide critical services to over 100 million citizens.

Our aspiration is to be a GovTech champion everywhere we work around the globe, supporting the needs of citizens and those that serve them every day. Building on 21 years of continuous growth and success, we're at a pivotal point on our journey to realise that aspiration.

As a company, we’re passionate about what we do and the citizens we help to serve. If you too would like to help champion the use of technology in public services, to improve outcomes for citizens and public sector organisations, then Civica is the right place for you. We will help you unlock the best version of yourself, achieve growth in your career whilst making a real difference to people and communities.

Requirements

About the role:

As a senior engineer in a Civica Platform team, you will be responsible for designing, building and maintaining Civica’s cloud-based platforms. You will be responsible for our externally facing Platform, used by our Engineering teams to serve our customers. You’ll also be building our internal developer platform, an exciting project that we’re currently undertaking from the ground up. You’ll also act as both an escalation point and a mentor within your team, ensuring that other platform engineers are set up for success.

What you will be doing:

• Working with both internal and externally facing systems, ensuring that they are performant, reliable, secure, and scalable
• Working on our developer platform, which enables developers to rapidly develop and iterate on our software and services
• Solving the most complex technical problems that the team works on
• Helping teams to improve older tech stacks & platforms utilising modern approaches
• Acting as a subject matter expert for other colleagues
• Actively influencing company-wide architecture
• Proactively developing best practices within the platform community
• Mentoring other platform engineers

We’d like you to have experience with:

• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Scripting & Automation
• Linux Administration
• Monitoring
• Networking
• Security
• DevOps Concepts & Practices

It would also be great if you have experience with:

• Windows Administration
• Migrating VM-based architectures to cloud-native
• At least one DevOps-friendly programming language such as Python or Go

Some technologies that we use:

• AWS & Azure platforms
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Datadog
• Github
• Azure DevOps1

You should apply if you:

• Are knowledgeable and experienced yet flexible; we value strong opinions, loosely held
• Are comfortable with ambiguity
• Enjoy mentoring colleagues
• Are able to both collaborate closely, and work independently
• Can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues, including senior management

Place of work:

Remote. Occasional travel within the UK

Benefits

• ‘Investors in People’ – Gold: We prioritise the development of our colleagues to match their ambition.
• Great Place to Work: We are dedicated to creating an outstanding employee experience.
• Financial Times - Diversity Leader 2023: We’re committed to maintaining an inclusive and supportive culture.
• Australian Business Awards – Employer of choice
• Top rated employer – Glassdoor: Our average length of service is 9 years.
• Societal Impact: Our solutions impact positive societal change, supporting local Authorities, Schools, Police forces, the NHS and numerous Central Government offices.