Platform Engineer

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to adopt into DevOps and Agile philosophies within the Microlise group. Your key responsibilities will be to implement, maintain and upgrade the Microlise Managed Service / Hosted Product and Infrastructure, providing essential skills and advice to other areas of the business.

This is a broad role, where you will have the opportunity to work with Architects and Engineers within our 150 strong development team, whilst supporting the Platform Manager and wider Platform team!

What will you be doing?

• Administering and maintaining critical information control systems supporting our managed and hosted services
• Collaborating with Development and wider business teams to ensure systems remain accurate, available and fit for purpose
• Implementing, configuring, maintaining and upgrading platform infrastructure and services
• Diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving platform and service issues
• Complete “dry run” testing prior to implementation work and ensure “roll back” functionality
• Working with third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure systems are performing optimally
• Facilitating effective knowledge sharing between internal teams and external stakeholders
• Maintaining platform documentation, reporting information and operational records
• Driving automation and continuous improvement initiatives across the platform estate

We’re looking for someone with a passion for infrastructure, automation and modern platform engineering practices. You’ll ideally have:

• Experience working within a DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering role
• A background in software-focused organisations or working closely alongside development teams
• A strong understanding of networking, IP addressing and enterprise IT environments
• Experience adopting a code-first approach and leveraging automation wherever possible
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams

We’re looking for technical skills such as:

• Terraform, Ansible and other automation technologies
• PowerShell and/or Bash scripting
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) principles
• Command Line Interface (CLI) expertise
• Linux and Windows Server administration
• Networking technologies including firewalls, load balancers and switching architecture
• DNS administration and configuration
• Active Directory
• Hyper-V virtualisation
• Enterprise storage technologies
• Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure and system monitoring solutions
• SolarWinds, Datadog, Grafana and Elastic
• SonarQube

Don’t worry if you don’t tick every box - we’re keen to hear from candidates who are eager to learn and develop!

Why Microlise?

When your groceries arrive at your door or you sign for your online parcel, one or more of our software, telematics or proof-of-purchase solutions has probably been used. Supporting 14 of the UK’s 15 largest retailers, we count household names such as JCB, Eddie Stobart, Carlsberg, Waitrose and Royal Mail as customers.

Proudly Midlands-based, Microlise has been privately-owned for thirty years. Our growing business is guided by our culture which drives the way we behave, the way we work, the way we connect with our customers, and the way we support and develop our people.

• We believe in our culture, values and staff successes, take a look around our new careers page to see why our employees love Microlise
• We believe in developing our staff and support our employees with their professional development goals
• 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays, increasing by 1 a year to 30 days
• Recognition of service from your 1st year and other anniversaries
• Free parking, tea, coffee and daily fruit
• Vitality Health Insurance, Employee Assistance Programme and subsidised eye tests and glasses
• Free Costco membership
• 20% off EE mobile and line rental
• Great staff extras: Easter eggs, yearly BBQ, Christmas gifts and annual staff awards!