About the Role
As a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Common Platform you are part of two teams, firstly embedded in a team within our Content Supply and Delivery (CS&D) business area working out of our London office with this team spread between Leeds and London. The Content Supply and Delivery team is focused on the great content at ITV and how new and existing content is added to our catalogue, and supplied and distributed from ITV Studios throughout the industry.
Responsibilities
•Implementing IaC with Terraform and utilising functions of the Common Platform
•Working within CS&D to prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery and supporting engineers with deployment and production issues
•Reviewing and approving pull requests from engineers in CS&D to support deployment of new infrastructure, permission changes and access
•Maintaining and supporting infrastructure for CS&D including the Common Platform Infrastructure e.g. Jenkins
•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
Requirements
•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
•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
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
