Platform Engineer
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We are looking for a passionate and collaborative Platform Engineer to join our Platform Core team. At Treatwell, we follow Team Topologies principles our platform team exists to enable and empower engineering teams across the organisation. We build self-service capabilities, reliable infrastructure, and exceptional developer experiences that help stream-aligned teams move faster and more autonomously collaborating with our partners.
The Platform Core team provides the foundational infrastructure and tooling that enables Treatwell's engineering organisation to ship value quickly and safely. As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in achieving this by designing and maintaining reliable cloud infrastructure, improving developer tooling, and working closely with engineering teams to turn their challenges into platform solutions.
We're on an exciting journey to become a truly outcome-focused, highly collaborative platform team. We measure our success not just by what we build, but by the impact we enable across Engineering.
You will be responsible for:
- Collaborating with your team members to build and maintain a scalable, robust platform as well as performant platform solutions to the entire organisation.
- Supporting the development of platform tooling that enables Continuous Delivery across engineering teams.
- Contributing to our container platform using Docker/Containerd and Kubernetes (EKS)
- Working with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration.
- Providing CI/CD capability to the organisation using GitLab CI.
- Collaborating with stream-aligned teams on cross team projects and improving their developer experience partnering with the Developer Experience and Data Platform teams when necessary.
- Identifying and evaluating emerging technologies for platform scalability and long-term growth.
- Leading and coordinating during platform incidents or outages, ensuring transparent communication
- Driving platform adoption by coaching teams on new platform tools, technologies, and best practices.
- Fostering for an action oriented culture and outcome focused delivery mindset
- Contributing towards the strategy and direction of the Platform Team inline with the Company objectives.
Requirements
Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Proficient in Bash, Python, JSON, and YAML for writing scripts and automation tooling
- Hands-on experience on Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform, ideally on AWS (Ansible or CloudFormation/CDK are a bonus)
- Familiar with GitLab CI and enabling complex CI/CD pipelines
- Professional knowledge of core AWS services including EC2, VPC, IAM, Route53, CloudFront, S3, RDS, and EKS
- Experience with Docker/Containerd and Kubernetes (EKS), plus familiarity with Helm or Kustomize.
- Familiar with monitoring and observability tools such as Datadog, Prometheus,CloudWatch and Grafana
- Professional knowledge of Linux systems (Debian-based and Amazon Linux)
- Understanding of DSOMM (DevSecOps Maturity Model) and AWS Well-Architected Framework principles
- Strong advocate for best practices in cloud infrastructure, operations, and platform engineering
- You prioritise creating technical documentation to enhance cross-functional alignment and knowledge sharing
- A strong team player who thrives in Agile, high-performance teams. You excel in articulating complex technical matters clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Exceptional problem-solving abilities, with a focus on resolving complex technical issues.
Benefits & conditions
We'll treat you with:
- 28-days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Monthly £/€40 Treatwell vouchers so you can treat yourself too
- Mental health support through our partnership with OpenUp
- Benefits platform offering cycle to work scheme, high street discounts and other perks
