Staff Platform Engineer

The Role:

You will be helping us realise and steer a cloud presence that enables our builder teams, technologists, and users to safely, securely, rapidly and easily leverage the cloud services they need in order to accelerate patient care in our virtual ward.

You'll work in partnership with the business to enable and automate complex workloads that support our engineering, data, and core tooling pipelines, and you will be providing systems that optimise for both batch and continuous workloads.

Our vision is a platform that epitomises the best of modern cloud practices - leveraging immutable infrastructure, zero trust and effective pipelines to allow our teams to quickly operationalise workloads that have compliance, security, observability, logging, and alerting baked in, and we're growing a team passionate to deliver it.

You’ll be:

• Bringing a strong technical leadership to the overall strategy and direction of the cloud platform the team are building to enable Doccla to operate at pace and scale in the cloud
• Building out an effective, modular, platform leveraging modern infrastructure as code patterns
• Creating effective CI/CD delivery pipelines so that users can focus on doing the job, not deploying it
• Ensuring that identity and access management deliver a secure and minimal platform while continuing to enable users.
• Working cross functionally with the wider organisation to migrate existing infrastructure to the new platform.
• Helping us track, understand, and optimise cloud spend
• Building out processes, tooling, and most importantly culture around well-behaved and resilient systems across our product teams
• Enabling product teams to own and run their own infrastructure, backed by solid provision around observability, alerting, and operability
• Building out an effective HA/DR approach so that teams are serviced well around these needs
• Helping with strategic challenges around our broader technical landscape
• Creating 'secure by default' approaches on the platform, so that out of the box, teams are already enabled with an effective security and compliance posture.
• Helping us to amplify best practice in the cloud through education, awareness raising, and evangelising, both without and outside the company

We’re looking for someone who:

Genuinely cares and enjoy helping your users, whilst balancing their needs with the business needs. You pursue tangible outcomes but have an incredible eye for detail. You have excellent interpersonal skills/EQ, you are a low ego learner and sharer. You pride yourself on your ability to collaborate closely with the whole team.

• has proven expert in technical delivery, architecting, developing, and maintaining of cloud infrastructure that enables builder teams to do their best work.
• has experience with:
• AWS or GCP and automating infrastructure provisioning and continuous integration/delivery using Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform or similar.
• Modern CI/CD pipelines and gitops workflows
• Development and scripting 
• Alerting and monitoring tooling, and building a sustainable on-call process
• Running post-mortems and teaching the culture of devops to non-ops engineers
• Disaster response, resilient systems engineering, and security automation
• Cloud security and systems hardening
• has a broad understanding of effective cost management as a key component of cloud platform administration.
• has a bias towards action and a desire for mission-driven work
• has excellent communication skills, including communication with less-technical staff
• has experience working in and contributing to an environment that supports a diverse team
• has a desire to mentor junior teammates and to build a team
• has comfortable both with pair working, and with independent work managing their own projects; but is also confident with sense-checks and check-ins to avoid chasing too many issues down rabbit holes.