About the Role

We’re free thinkers. We’re innovators. We’re #ConsultantsWhoCode. We have an exciting opportunity for an experience Platform Engineer (AWS) who has a passion for platform engineering, to join our engineering team here at EDF. We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our AWS Platform team evolve to the next level and to truly unlock our application engineering teams. The Opportunity…

As a Platform Engineer (AWS), you will play a key role within the AWS Platform Team, who provides and supports the AWS Landing Zone, which is the secure, automated, and compliant foundation for AWS workloads at EDF. Our Engineering practise is a collective of multi-disciplined engineers comprising of generalists and specialists; be it front-end, back-end, full stack developer or DevOps and Platform Engineering. We offer opportunities for engineers who want to help shape, develop and grow our engineering practice, whilst developing their own skills, knowledge and career. We’re evolving our IT landscape from traditional on-premise monoliths, to a collection of scalable, independent micro services, which enable us to react to the fast paced nature of the energy industry and uncertainty.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a starting salary of £63,000 DOE, potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives. Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing. Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. Our AWS Platform Engineering team can work flexibly from home or the office, balancing the working day with personal commitments. We have offices in London, Brighton, Exeter and Plymouth.

Steve Bowerman, Principal Software Engineer says: “It’s an exciting time. We’ve got a great start-up culture in a larger organisation, with the corporate stability and backing. And that real emphasis on being able to affect change is very important for me.”

At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility. We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need. We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.

What you’ll be doing

Our core working methods are based around modern DevOps process; shift-left, test automation, SRE, CICD, and "everything as code" mindset.

• End-to-End Ownership: Lead the charge on solution delivery, backlog management, and design within agile, DevOps-focused teams.
• Delivery of platform functions, features and components, utilising agile software development life cycle methods and practices.
• Create well-designed, testable code that enables automation of test and deployment activity.
• Utilise continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) techniques in developing platform components.
• Integrate components into the broad functional and technical solution landscape, using common standards and patterns.
• Document and maintain platform functionality for it to be understood and utilised by others – including Contribution to design artefacts, operating instructions and run books and end-user material.
• A strong focus on building self-service, gitops processes
• Contribution to wider engineering community direction, tooling and technologies.

Who you are

• Experience in the development and support of Cloud Landing Zones, particularly AWS.
• Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ideally, Python or NodeJS)
• Experienced in source control and CI / CD tooling technologies (e.g. GitHub, Terraform, Azure DevOps)
• Experience in monitoring using tooling technologies (e.g. Dynatrace and CloudWatch)
• Experience of agile collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence
• Whilst we’re looking for these skills, people will have the opportunity to work across the team and develop expertise in different areas.

You thrive in an evolving environment where you get the opportunity to contribute to diverse projects and innovate new solutions to business challenges. At EDF, you can experience different teams and feel like you’re in a new job, without changing companies.

If this sounds like you then we’d love to hear from you!

Closing date for applications: 19.10.2024
Location: Home working/Flexible

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