Platform Engineer Lead

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Below are the details of the position:

Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK

Job Description:

Required Skills:

15+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
5+ years’ experience overseeing enterprise-grade platform solutions
Experience in a highly Agile continuous integration and continuous deployment environment, preferably within a financial domain.
Strong experience in Java/J2EE, Spring Boot, Mule, web Services, Kafka, SQL & PL/SQL (Oracle)
Strong knowledge of XML, JSON and its usage within API and Microservice implementations at scale.
Significant expertise in cloud-native deployment using OpenShift, Kubernetes or any one the container platform.
Experience maintaining on-premises environments, containerized applications and hybrid cloud solutions.
Experience using leading app servers and integration technologies like Mule ESB, Anypoint Platform, MQ, Kafka.
Experience in Splunk, Dynatrace or AppDynamics (APM tools).
Proven ability to leverage knowledge of infrastructure automation, DevOps, cloud technologies and platform architecture to build resilient, scalable and maintainable solutions
Experience implementing best practices, optimizing performance, ensuring compliance with security standards, and providing leadership to the engineering team
Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to delve in low level details with a technical audience and explain concepts at a high level to a non-technical audience

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