Platform Engineer

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Vesta Software Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

🏗️ Construction

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🏭 Manufacturing

Construction • Food & Beverage • Manufacturing

Vesta Software Group is a global organization specializing in the acquisition and long-term growth of vertical market software companies. Unlike traditional acquirers, Vesta operates on a buy-and-hold strategy, maintaining the independence of the companies they acquire and investing in their sustainable growth. Vesta prides itself on never selling a business, instead prioritizing the autonomy of its acquired companies and leveraging a network of resources to accelerate growth. With more than 30 acquisitions and a presence in over 9 countries, Vesta supports its portfolio companies with best practices and capital while fostering a productive and positive workplace culture, demonstrated by its Great Place To Work® certification.

📋 Description

• Operate and troubleshoot Kahootz's AWS-based production platform • Monitor service health, availability, capacity and performance using AWS CloudWatch, Monit and other observability tools • Investigate and resolve incidents across AWS services including EC2, RDS, IAM and networking • Deploy and validate updates, patches and production changes using controlled, auditable processes • Create and maintain scripts, runbooks and operational documentation • Diagnose recurring issues with support, R&D and DevOps colleagues and implement lasting fixes • Evolve platform components to improve reliability, maintainability, scalability and cost efficiency • Build infrastructure-as-code and automated deployment patterns for repeatable environments • Lead containerisation and modernisation initiatives, including Kubernetes where appropriate • Adapt and deploy platform capabilities for specialist projects and new markets • Assess architecture changes and integrations and advise on secure, supportable designs • Respond to security vulnerabilities and incidents and coordinate remediation • Maintain technical controls and evidence supporting compliance certifications and customer assurance • Contribute to certifications, audits and security reviews • Improve and test business-continuity and disaster-recovery arrangements

🎯 Requirements

• Applicants must be UK based and eligible for UK security clearance • A degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience • Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills • Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical decisions • Ability to manage competing priorities and work effectively in a small, collaborative team • Sound understanding of software delivery lifecycles, SaaS operations and DevOps practices • Awareness of secure engineering, operational risk and compliance principles • Familiarity with GitHub and Jira • Curiosity, good judgement and willingness to learn, including responsible use of automation and AI-assisted tools • Hands-on experience operating and troubleshooting production workloads in AWS • Good understanding of Linux systems, networking principles and protocols, and cloud infrastructure • Practical experience with Route53, EC2, RDS, S3, EFS, ECS, ACM and WAF • Scripting and coding skills in Bash, Ansible, Python, or a comparable language • Experience with infrastructure as code, configuration management and CI/CD pipelines; Terraform preferred • Experience with container workflows and Kubernetes deployments • Experience with monitoring, logging and incident, problem or change-management practices • Exposure to security, compliance and vulnerability management tools such as CrowdStrike, Rapid7 and SecurityScorecard • Experience in a SaaS or software-delivery environment is desirable • Experience working effectively in a remote or distributed team is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Support for continued learning and development • Remote work arrangement