What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Centrica Services Ltd (UK)?
Centrica likes data, it likes it a lot and how we use data to provide benefit to our customers is something we are passionate about. When it comes to knowledge of building data platform solutions in the cloud, you believe in doing it the right way. Manual ways to stand up infrastructure have no place here, you are all about automation. You know the right tools for the job and are always looking at the latest techniques and technologies. Push boundaries, disrupt the status quo. Continual improvement in everything we do is our mantra. The successful candidate will work with Senior Platform Engineers within the platform team, to turn requirements for platforms and services into code and operational solutions. The day-to-day.. Work with the Head of Platform Engineering to ensure the systems and products delivered operate within the budgets for operational expenditure. Drive best practice approaches to the build and maintenance of Big Data estate platforms with focus on automation and efficiency. Take ownership of technical issues and work through to resolution. Plan, manage, and perform upgrades on all Data Services related infrastructure as required. Close collaboration and relationship building with various teams across Centrica and its partners. Design and document policies and procedures to be used both within and externally to the team. Ensure Centrica Big Data Platform SLAs are achievable and met. What we need from you Tech Skills Real world experience of developing and deployment of production grade Cloud platform infrastructure in the Big Data space (AWS, Azure) Expert in delivering infrastructure as code using Terraform Strong experience in developing configuration management pipelines using tools such as Ansible. Hands on infrastructure experience Python and Linux shell scripting skills are a must. Knowledgeable in the area of continuous delivery and continuous integration, using industry standard tools such as Jenkins, Git Experienced in open source Linux distributions such as Ubuntu from a system admin perspective Nice to Haves Experience of Qlik Attunity/Compose products and Oracle is beneficial Knowledge of Cloudera Data offerings is beneficial PowerShell would be desirable. Soft Skills A self starter Easy to work with, open, honest, and a good sense of humour Optimistic; comfortable celebrating failure when it leads to learning and iteration Passionate about good software; active contribution to open source or personal projects on Github is massively beneficial Collaboration with operations team to ensure operational processes enable out of hours platform incidents to be resolved quickly and with minimum downtime. What's in it for you? This is a great opportunity to join a friendly and supportive culture with people passionate about technology. Join us and help Centrica develop its Digital ambitions. But what’s in it for you? Competitive base salary Flexible and remote working within the UK Bonus Healthcare plan Pension 25 days holiday Bank, with options to buy more holidays At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap across the technology sector and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it! PLEASE APPLY ONLINE by hitting the 'Apply' button. Applications will ONLY be accepted via the ‘Apply’ button. This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.