Platform Engineer

Requirements of the role

The FCA regulates the conduct of 45,000 firms in the UK to ensure our financial markets are honest, fair and competitive. Follow this link to find out more About the FCA.

The Team/Department

As part of the Data, Technology & Innovation (DTI) Division, we are leading the FCA in harnessing the power of data and advanced analytics to transform financial regulation. 

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Platform Engineer to join the Digital Delivery Hub (DDH). This role works closely with our development squads through the design, building, and maintaining of scalable and efficient platforms that support the work across DDH and wider FCA strategy. This role requires a deep understanding of system architecture, cloud services, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes, making it critical for the successful development, running and maintaining of the products supported by the Digital Delivery Team.

This role will require working with other product groups across DTI such as the Infrastructure Product Group (IPG) to coordinate activity across platforms and environments utilised by DDH. Mentoring and providing leadership across the development teams within the DDH to promote the use of AWS best practices and ensure the quality of developed infrastructure.

What will you be doing?

Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions, including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources

Mentoring and providing leadership across the development teams within the DDH to promote the use of AWS best practices and ensure the quality of developed infrastructure

Defining and owning the DevSecOps strategy for the DDH

Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation

Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure

Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations, whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the deployment and operation of systems

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