Overview

Senior Platform Engineer role at Gespreksleider Jacobs, in partnership with the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and Inspire People. Hybrid / Flexible working. Location options include London, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, Salford. Salary range: £63,824 to £83,778 (including allowances) plus Civil Service benefits and pension.

Responsibilities

• Provide development teams with tools such as observability, monitoring, dashboards, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Design and scale DBT\'s global product platform.
• Evangelise service-level objectives and negotiate error budgets.
• Participate in an on-call rota (with allowance).
• Drive improvements in developer experience, streamlining deployment and boosting productivity.

Projects include rolling out an observability tool for system monitoring, automating deployments to reduce downtime, and developing CLI tooling for developers. You\'ll work with AWS, Azure, Terraform/CloudFormation, Docker, ECS/ECR, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch, Python/Django, PostgreSQL (RDS), Sentry, Redis/Elasticache.

Essential Criteria

• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure or Google Cloud.
• Ability to build reliable, well-tested infrastructure as code (e.g., Terraform, AWS Copilot, CloudFormation, Pulumi).
• Fluency in one or more programming languages, writing clean and effective code.
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix fundamentals and TCP/IP networking.
• Ability to evaluate user impact of infrastructure and platform changes, with a focus on developer experience.
• In-depth experience of designing solutions to complex technical problems independently.

Desirable: experience designing/implementing Docker images and prototyping with open-source components.

Benefits

• Civil Service pension with average employer contribution of 28.97%
• 25 days annual leave, rising to 30 with service
• Hybrid/flexible working (2-3 days in office per week)
• Three paid volunteering days per year
• Learning and development tailored to your role
• Inclusive culture encouraging diversity

How To Apply

Submit a 2-page CV aligned to the essential criteria. Inspire People will review applications against these requirements before progressing to DBT hiring managers. Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview and complete a technical problem-solving exercise.

Security Clearance

This role requires SC clearance. To be eligible, you must have been resident in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet SC criteria will result in withdrawal of your application.