Platform Engineer Lead

Below are the details of the position:

Platform Engineering Lead
Location: Bromley, UK

Job Description:

Required Skills:

• 20+ years’ experience in building and maintaining applications with focus on performance, scalability, security, and reliability.
  
  
• 7+ 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