Platform Engineer

Description:

About the role:
Confused.com have an exciting opportunity for a Platform Engineer to join our Internal Delivery Platform Team (IDP). Our IDP teams enable our engineers to quickly build and run safe, secure and cost effective systems in our public cloud (Microsoft Azure). This engineering role will support improvement in our product development flow across the whole of Confused.com.
What you’ll be doing:
The IDP focuses on Engineering Experience - enabling engineers to quickly and effectively build solutions whilst helping to keep everything safe, secure and cost effective. As a Platform Engineer you'll be working as part of an agile team that provides services and tools to our internal engineering teams using the best technology for the job, spotting opportunities to do things better. You'll also be part of several thriving Communities, helping to foster and mentor a progressive engineering culture. You'll have the opportunity to suggest new technologies and approaches, and play a role in the technical direction that platform engineering at Confused.com should take.
Requirements
What you’ll bring to the role:

• Experience with automating Microsoft Azure deployments using Terraform or ARM/Bicep and designing Cloud systems.
• Experience of using data to drive decision making
• Experience of building and operating consumer-facing websites.
• Experience using Azure DevOps (or another CICD tool) to automate software releases to customers.
• Knowledge of cloud provider design principles, like Azure and AWS’ Well-Architected frameworks
• Scripting experience in either PowerShell, Python or Bash
• Industry experience in implementing platform engineering approaches, and offering services to internal customers.
• Demonstrable experience of solving business problems.
• Willingness to learn and passion to keep yourself at the forefront of technology delivery.
• Experience being part of a cross functional agile team, working together to solve problems and deliver outcomes.