Lead Platform Engineer

As a Lead Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for line management of up to 8 Platform Engineers. We use Azure and Vmware virtualized environments etc, but you will also support our on-premise data centre, whilst continuing to drive best practice for the adoption of further modern infrastructure delivery techniques.

As a Lead Platform Engineer, we are looking for someone to:

• Provide line management and technical mentoring for Platform Engineering teams
• Curate training plans and competency frameworks
• Own of hybrid on-premise and cloud technology infrastructure
• Support platform engineers to deliver the following services:-
• Technical support for all existing and new technologies within both cloud and on-premise environments
• Implement, develop and support the desktop, including laptops & tablets, server, SAN and software infrastructure estate ensuring test and role out plans are signed off before implementation
• Monitor and maintain all environments to ensure agreed system availability , performance and security is maintained
• Provide technical knowledge, expertise and consultancy on platform engineering work
• Lifecycle management of technology platforms
• Analyse incident trend information to drive change to processes, procedures, systems and services

Requirements

Essential

• Management of both on premise and cloud infrastructure
• Strong interpersonal skills
• A flexible and adaptable approach to working
• Experience of working in an enterprise environment
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft infrastructure platforms and tooling
• Excellent understanding of security and lifecycle management
• Experience in management of a Vmware virtualized environment
• Strong working knowledge of Backup Systems
• Strong understanding of Networking concepts

Desirable

• Usage of pipelines to manage control of production environments, including usage of Infrastructure as code platforms