[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Kainos

Role Description

Join Kainos and Shape the Future. At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

Working within our Defence and National Security accounts, you will be working on some of the most challenging and critically important projects across various cloud technologies.

As a Senior Platform Engineer (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading the design of significant components of a modern digital service platform including its automation, build, deployment, and support. You’ll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with talented colleagues that will help you to learn, develop, and grow.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Working as part of a team - Collaborating with colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security capabilities to build, test, and deploy software of the highest quality.
• Using technology for positive impact - Ensuring the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit, while aligning to industry standards and best practices.
• Putting people first - Supporting colleagues and facilitating an inclusive DevOps culture in all that you do.
• Finding your voice - Driving conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable, and performant.
• Supporting services through Live Operation - Ensuring the service is available, secure, and performant as you strive to continuously improve it.
• Becoming a Role Model - Embodying the Kainos values and proactively coaching and mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Pushing the boundaries - Developing specialisms and choosing to pivot your career in a certain direction through exposure to technology.

Qualifications

• Proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to other technical and non-technical people.
• Significant expertise in the use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and automation tools.
• Fluency in at least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.

Requirements

• Demonstrable experience in designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform in production environments.
• Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective, and minimize lock-in.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation, and advocating MVP.
• Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.
• Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components (e.g., security, elasticity, performance).
• Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (AWS or Azure).
• Applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and container orchestration tooling to solve business problems.
• Using modern version control systems including git.
• Debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools.

Benefits

• Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.
• Obtained mid-level certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).
• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities, both within the team and with wider non-technical audiences.
• Experience of cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies.
• Experience in managing, mentoring, and coaching junior members of staff.

Company Description

At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.

Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out.

We understand that everyone's journey is different, and by having a private conversation, we can ensure that our recruitment process is tailored to your needs.