Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer position centres on maintaining CI/CD pipelines for MariaDB, MongoDB, AWS RDS, and EC2 database instances. It would suit someone who can bring careful technical judgement and practical problem-solving to the role.

Known job details

• Pay: £65,000 - £85,000
• Additional detail: Pension support may be included.

Likely focus of the role

• Maintaining CI/CD pipelines for MariaDB, MongoDB, AWS RDS, and EC2 database instances.
• Automate operational tasks such as backups, restores, patching, scaling, and monitoring.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and configuration management solutions to standardize deployment of database platforms and code.

Requirements mentioned

• Strong Linux administration background and advanced scripting skills (Bash, Shell, or Python).
• Experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent.