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Pay
£70,000 a year
Shift and schedule
Overtime
Location
Manchester M60 0AG
Full job description
Senior Platform Engineer – AWS
£70,000 plus excellent benefits (Work Level 5)
This is a UK remote first role, with an option to work from our Manchester office for those who want to. You may be asked to occasionally attend meetings in Manchester.
We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Co-op Digital Technology & Data business area and help to build simple platforms that are robust, secure, and perform effectively. We work in small, multi-disciplinary teams and run our own delivery and deployments. Working in an agile way, we value sharing knowledge so frequently use pairing and ensemble development.
Platform Engineers are a key part of our Digital Technology team at Co-op, and we provide leadership around automation, tooling, and cloud infrastructure.
We work closely with Developers, Quality Analysts, and other colleagues to build solutions to business problems. As a Senior Platform Engineer you’ll mentor colleagues at all levels within the team (platform and non-platform), work with partners to gain an understanding of the problems they face and find ways to improve existing approaches.
Our infrastructure is a healthy mix of IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS, making the most of infrastructure as Code. We use both AWS and Azure where appropriate and Terraform to define the infrastructure, and we strongly encourage the use of PaaS and SaaS.
What you’ll do
- Work within product-focused teams to effectively deliver infrastructure and support for our websites and APIs
- Transform technical requirements into an effective toolchain enabling iterative product delivery
- Optimise deployment strategies for products, making sure they’re repeatable, scalable, and highly available
- Be heavily involved in overall solution design
- Provide 24/7 technical support as part of a rota (paid overtime will be provided)
- Coach, mentor, and guide your team in their development
This role would suit people who have
- Significant experience in a hands-on Platform Engineering role
- Experience working in an Agile/DevOps environment and using Unix/Linux operating systems, scripting, and tooling
- Experience coaching and mentoring your colleagues
- A solid understanding of the full web technology stack (i.e. Terraform, Jenkins, AWS)
- Good communication skills, with the ability to translate often complex language for non-technical audiences
- Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively
Why Co-op?
As a Co-op colleague, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:
- An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
- 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
- A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
- Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
- Coaching and training to support your career development
- Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
Building an inclusive work environment
At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone.
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