Associate Digital Platform Engineer

About The Role
Team – Platform Engineering
Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in either the Vitality Bournemouth or London offices. Full time hours.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!
Top 3 skills needed for this role:

A keen learner
To not be phased by getting stuck in 
Always looking to continuously improve What this role is all about:
The mission is to transform our infrastructure into resilient, scalable, and repeatable IaaS and PaaS services to support current and future business needs. The role involves assisting the Digital Operations team with daily operations and support of Vitality’s hybrid cloud environment, managing individual services and the overall environment, and providing technical support as needed. Overcoming technical and logistical challenges is crucial for smooth service operation. The role also includes building skills in automation, OS management, AWS environment management, and infrastructure and service design, while responding to team needs. Additionally, the role holder will engage in technical implementations, infrastructure upgrade projects, and platform migrations.

Key Actions

With some guidance prepare and executes operational tasks within the Vitality hybrid cloud environment.
Actively reports on issues affecting established services, providing input to the problem solving process in order to provide resolutions.
Creation and support of tools and processes to serve operational needs.
Attends team standups and specific platform standups, actively contributing to discussion and debate.
Understands, with support, the processes undertaken and supported by the digital operations team and works to improve these where possible.
Understand and improves the Certificate management/API Gateway Management/Reverse Proxy Management processes used in Vitality.
Keen to expand knowledge through accredited courses in relevant technologies (AWS, Kubernetes etc.)
Hands on experience working alongside experienced members of staff where you will learn how to form part of a cloud operational support role and explore DevOps practices.
Learn about cloud technologies, application and platform design principles and gain operational experience in a fast-paced IT environment.
Begin exploring how to manage the DevOps toolchain access management/ DevOps toolchain support/maintenance/upgrades and overall user experience improvements.
Engage with the design and delivery processes for Platform services within the Digital Operations teams. Start to understand and influence the design and delivery of simple services where possible.
Explore the concepts of infrastructure as code and consider how we could introduce greater automation into our processes where possible.What do you need to thrive?

Must have a passion for automation, cloud technologies and learning.
Ability to multi-task in an effective and organised manner.
Effective communication skills both written and verbal
Must be willing and able to contribute to making constructive feedback to continually improve efforts.
Must be familiar and keen to work with IAC concepts/languages/tools such as yaml, json, ansible, terraform, cloudformation, aws cli, bash etc.
Must have some skills in OS management for both Windows/Linux platforms.So, what’s in it for you?

Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
Our award-winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
Life Assurance – Four times annual salaryThese are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page. Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
If you are successful in your application and join us at Vitality, this is our promise to you, we will:

Help you to be the healthiest you’ve ever been.
Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self.
Give you flexibility on how, where and when you work.
Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths.
Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be.
Give you the space to try, fail and learn.
Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support.
Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits.
Be there for you when you need us.
Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society.We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong, and are supported to be happy and healthy.

About The Company
We're really excited to announce that we have recently been awarded "Top 10 Best Places To Work" in The Sunday Times Awards 2024!
 
Diversity & Inclusion
At Vitality, we’re committed to diversity and inclusion because it’s good for our employees, for our business, and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
Vitality’s approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page.
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early