Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer Opportunity

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.

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.