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Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Tes Global

London

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Full Time, Permanent

Job overview

  

The Platform Operations team at TES plays a big part in ensuring our websites are kept alive and healthy as well as working very closely with a range of engineers to deliver a fast, robust, safe and secure delivery pipeline.

Reporting to the Head of Platform Operations you will be responsible for the day to day support and enhancement of the core infrastructure within TES.

Key Responsibilities

The role is responsible for supporting the 24x7 Amazon Web Services (AWS) platforms. Responsibilities include operating the platform underpinning our websites, automation of services and changes, managing associated 3rd party services, platform support for the Software Engineering team, network services across AWS and between TES and AWS as well as the day to day operations of the AWS environment.

Reporting

· Ensure all activities are logged, monitored and escalated as appropriate;

· Maintain and manage services in an operational state at all times;

· Support the implementation, management, improvement and monitoring of appropriate service levels.

  

Technical

· Provide engineering support of all AWS services, servers, networks, operating systems, virtualization technologies and applications and other components as a platform that underpin tes.com and associated web properties and services;

· Operate and continuously improve processes for event, alerting, incident and problem management;

· Ensure smooth operations of our AWS platform in collaboration with AWS, other internal technology teams and 3rd parties;

· Continuously improve platform operations and services;

· Ensure capacity and availability of web infrastructure meets operational demand;

· Support the introduction of new services to our platform; 

· Ensure AWS security infrastructure is appropriate according to business needs and risk appetite.

Change

· Work in collaboration with Software Engineering teams to ensure changes to our platform are introduced with the minimum of disruption to services and balance risk against investment. 

· Collaboration with project teams to ensure, time, resource and costs are in place;

3rd Parties Services

· Engage with third-party suppliers as required (primarily AWS);

· Provide operational services to the Software Engineering Teams;

· Manage the platform to agreed SLA’s.


Person Specification

Essential Skills/Qualifications/Experience

· Building relationships with internal Software Engineering Teams;

· Strong communication of technical principles to other members of the engineering teams and wider audience;

· At least 2 years of managing AWS services at scale including RI’s and approaches to sizing in the cloud.

· At least 5 years of experience in managing a wide range of technologies including but not limited to: 

  • Infrastructure automation – Ansible, Terraform
  • Large scale logging and monitoring services –      Logstash ELK
  • Networking technologies and protocols
  • Commercial experience with some of the following      technologies:
    • Docker
    • CoreOS
    • Ubuntu
    • Nginx
    • Python
    • Kubernetes
Desirable Skills/Qualifications

· Ability manage your own project goals and objectives 

· Work under pressure when the need arises whilst keeping a clear head

· Ability to manage ambiguity

· Self-starter and self-motivated.

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About Tes Global

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  • Tes Global
  • 3 St Paul’s Place, Norfolk Street, Sheffield
  • South Yorkshire
  • S1 2JE
  • United Kingdom

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Tes Global is a digital education company that has been supporting educators for over 100 years. 

Our mission is what we stand for. ''We believe in the power of great teaching. We support and connect teachers and schools worldwide, helping them to improve children's lives through  education''

Our company

We’re aiming to develop the products and services that will make the biggest difference in global education. We’re providing teachers and schools with training, resources and jobs services alongside the world’s largest online teacher community. 

We are working to making a difference in the lives of educators, children and students by building a strong and sustainable digital education company, with commercial and social purpose that will improve standards in education worldwide.

Our culture

We put educators at the heart of everything we do and we‘re passionate about the difference we’re making in global education. We succeed by working together to develop and deliver by collaborating across teams and global locations.

We’re excited about our future; we’re embracing new ideas, innovative ways of working and open technologies so that we can help every educator in the world to raise global teaching standards.

Our people

We treat others’ as we would like to be treated ourselves – with dignity and respect. We’re sociable people with a sense of fun and if you believe in improving education worldwide we’ll warmly welcome you here.

We are diverse, we come from different backgrounds and different countries; we are teachers, journalists, designers, technologists, sales people, events managers, software engineers and more. We are socially engaged and united by our passion to support educators, schools, universities and students to ensure that everyone has the best education wherever they are.

Our rewards and benefits

We’re committed to providing an inclusive and engaging workplace where we value everyone’s contribution. We have high expectations and our people work hard so when it comes to our benefits, we have everything you’d expect, from health insurance, generous annual holiday entitlement and retirement benefits. But we also offer more than the basics. Our benefits are part of who we are and are there to support your work / life balance, your health, your development and your financial security.

Our commitment to diversity

We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to our organisation and we believe that we are stronger when we are inclusive. You’ll be treated fairly whatever your age, gender, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity or family circumstances.

Everyone is responsible for the promotion and advancement of our diversity policy and we are an Equal Opportunities employer. As such, we are committed to ensuring a culture of equal opportunities with respect and dignity at work for all employees.

Our locations

We are a truly global company with a presence in the UK, US, Australia and beyond, and everyone, in every location is an integral part of the Tes team.

Join our team to help make a difference in global education. Check out our latest job opportunities below and apply or send your CV and covering letter to careers@tesglobal.com

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