Platform Engineer in London

Hybrid in London·Added yesterday (last checked 2 Nov)

ITV

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Our summary

Work mode: Hybrid, London

Skills

Nice to have

ITV is hiring for this role in several places. This vacancy is in London.

Requirements

What we're looking for

Knowledge and proven experience of secure cloud practices, and building highly performance and scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
Knowledge and proven experience of Infrastructure as Code technologies (ideally Terraform) and using and implementing version control strategies with these technologies
Knowledge and proven experience of containerisation and deploying container workloads, ideally on Kubernetes
Knowledge and proven experience with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration patterns and platforms e.g. Jenkins, GitHub actions etc
Knowledge and proven experience with monitoring and alerting tools
Knowledge and proven experience responding to production incidents to diagnose and resolve issues related to the infrastructure supporting the services

Nice to have

Knowledge and proven experience in cloud cost optimisation and balancing this with resilient infrastructure needs
Knowledge and proven experience with in depth knowledge of Linux (Centos, Amazon Linux 2)
Knowledge and experience working within an Agile delivery methodology
Strong communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback, and receive constructive feedback for improvements (particularly an ability to show constructive design and code collaboration e.g. PR reviews)
Passionate to work within a team structure and build relationships with multiple teams (Embedded team and Common Platform)
Able to travel to London twice a week to collaborate with the wider Common Platform team and your embedded team in London
Experience and knowledge of Kubernetes and management tools such as helm

The role

Implementing IaC with Terraform and utilising functions of the Common Platform
Working within Streaming to prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery and supporting engineers with deployment and production issues
Reviewing and approving pull requests from engineers in Streaming to support deployment of new infrastructure, permission changes and access
Maintaining and supporting infrastructure for Streaming including the Common Platform Infrastructure e.g. Prometheus
Managing upgrades of the Kubernetes deployments in AWS
Defining and designing the infrastructure for the future - whether this be for a new application or re-design of an existing application
Sharing best practice within the Common Platform team and contributing back ideas, improvements and designs

The team

Workplace: London, White City (Hybrid Working)

Hiring process

3 steps2 interviewsa task to do

Application
First interview
With a couple of colleagues · 45–60 min
A mix of strengths, technical and scenario questions.
Second interview
With two ITV colleagues
Questions around ITV's behaviours, to get a fuller picture of experience.
Job-specific exercise or task
Not every role
For some roles, a presentation, case study or other practical exercise, either before the interview or on the day.

Timeline varies depending on application volume and the role.
Feedback is given after interviews but not after the CV screening stage.
Application help requests are answered within 2 working days.

About ITV

Industry: Broadcasting and media

In their own words

About the company & team

As a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Common Platform you are part of two teams, firstly embedded in a team within our Streaming business area working out of our London office.

The Streaming team is focused on delivering our content to our customers through our online platform and in particular our exciting and innovative ITVX product.

You will also be part of the wider Common Platform team, ensuring that best practice, capabilities and tooling are shared across the embedded Platform Engineers. As a Platform Engineer you will have the support of this wider team including platform engineers within various areas of the ITV business. The Common Platform takes the best of open source, cloud native and SaaS tooling, and packages it in highly automated, easy to deploy template architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns.

The embedded engineer is responsible for supporting the team they are embedded into with the design and implementation of the team's infrastructure use cases, upgrades to the platform, troubleshooting problems and coaching your software developer colleagues in their use of AWS.

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