We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team and work with our engineering team to optimize, implement, and maintain our organization’s cloud-based systems. The Platform Engineer’s responsibilities include deploying and debugging systems, as well as executing new cloud initiatives.
Ultimately, this role will work with different IT professionals and teams to ensure our cloud computing systems meet the needs of our organization and customers.
Main duties and responsibilities
- The Platform Engineer is responsible for the on-going deployment, management and maintenance of development and production environments within Azure cloud infrastructure.
- Ultimately, this role will work with different IT professionals and teams to ensure our cloud computing systems meet the needs of our organization and customers.
- Monitoring infrastructure and environments, taking steps to improve stability, reliability and performance whilst always remaining cost-conscious.
- Contributing towards building an organisation-wide Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps culture, by sharing principles, approaches, best practices, documentation and code with colleagues.
- Maintaining existing and creating new IaC templates and deploying new infrastructure and environments in accordance with Architecture, Compliance, Operational and Security requirements.
- Troubleshooting complicated, cross-platform issues involving Network, IaaS, PaaS, Operating System, Application, Database and other components, taking ownership through to resolution.
- Documenting your knowledge of environments and individual systems as you acquire it over time, creating runbooks and ensuring critical system information is readily available to colleagues across the business.
- Seeking opportunities to apply automation to any tasks performed manually, following through to implementation.
- Keeping up-to date with security best-practice and proactively identifying, diagnosing and solving complex security issues.
About you
You'll be a technologist at heart, with a passion for learning and an eagerness to share knowledge with others.
- Demonstrable experience utilising modern DevOps/CloudOps practices and processes to build and operate the cloud platform with prevention, resilience and reliability as core principles.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure monitoring and SRE principles around observability.
- Experience of working within controlled regulatory frameworks, such as SOC, ISO27001 and Cyber Essentials.
- An ‘automate everything’ mindset using IaC, source control and pipelines wherever possible.
- A self-starter mindset with strong planning and organisational skills, able to balance business priorities whilst delivering with quality.
- Clear and concise communication skills, to technical and non-technical audiences.
You'll be able to demonstrate technical skills in most of the following areas (we don’t expect you to know it all!) with an appetite to learn, equally comfortable sharing and helping others develop:
- Enterprise Agreement, Tenant and Subscription management.
- Cost analysis and Reservation management.
- Active Directory Identity and Access Management, including Role-Based Access Control.
- Virtual Networking features, including: Hub and Spoke topologies, Micro-segmentation and Zero-trust; Subnets, Private Endpoints, Load Balancing, Peering, Routing and Filtering; Virtual Private Network, Firewall, IDS/IPS, Network Virtual Appliance and Bastion; DDoS Protection, Front Door, WAF, Traffic Manager, API Management and DNS.
- Infrastructure as a Service features, including Virtual Machines (Linux, and Windows).
- Platform as a Service features, including: Key Vault, Storage, Databases (SQL, and Postgres); App Service Plans and Web / API / Function Apps; Kubernetes and Container Registry; PowerBI.
- Logging, Monitoring and Alerting, including: Monitor, Alerts, Dashboards, Sentinel; Diagnostics Settings, Log Analytics, KQL.
- Third-party Integrations, including Confluent Kafka, Skytap.
- Infrastructure as Code, including PowerShell scripting, Azure CLI.
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About Us
We're a global law firm helping our clients achieve their goals wherever they do business. Our pursuit of innovation has transformed our delivery of legal services. With offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we deliver exceptional outcomes on cross-border projects, critical transactions and high-stakes disputes.
At DLA Piper, we understand that inclusion is not a one-size-fits-all concept. We embrace and celebrate the range of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences that each individual brings to our firm. By fostering a culture that welcomes and appreciates all aspects of our individuality, we ensure that everyone has the opportunity to succeed.
Our commitment to inclusion and positive social impact enables us to provide exceptional service to our clients and communities, while nurturing a unique and inclusive culture for all our people. We welcome the unique contribution that you will bring to our firm and actively encourage applications from all talented people – however your talent is packaged, whatever your background or circumstance and regardless of how you identify.
We are committed to being accessible and accommodating any reasonable adjustments needed throughout the recruitment process to ensure an inclusive experience for all. If you need any support or adjustments, please let us know.
Where local legislation permits, we will conduct relevant pre-engagement screening checks prior to your first day.
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At DLA Piper, we aim to make meaningful progress and build an inclusive culture where anyone affected by disability, neurodiversity or a long-term health condition has an equitable and accessible chance of success. If you think you may need adjustments or additional support to enable you to participate in our recruitment process, please contact our Recruitment team and we will be happy to support you.
Agile Working
We recognise that people have responsibilities and interests outside of their career and that as a business, we all benefit from working flexibly. That’s why we are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support requests for agile working arrangements.
Pre-Engagement Screening
In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits, we will conduct pre-engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability, and references from previous employers.
Our hiring approach
Our hiring approach enables us to learn about the professional and person you are, and gives you the opportunity to learn about us. Your recruitment experience can differ depending on the type of role you are interviewing for. You will always meet your direct Line Manager for your role, as well as peers and close collaborators for the position. For some of our roles we may also use assessment tools, practical exercises, and panel presentations. Your Recruitment Business Partner will inform you of the recruitment process at the start of any recruitment process, but please let us know if you have any questions prior to making an application.
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