Overview

Position Title: Platform Engineer

Company: Zoopla

Location: Southampton, UK

Job Description:

As a Platform Engineer you will be responsible for all aspects of our cloud infrastructure and data platforms including the design, operations, infrastructure as code, DevOps pipelines, and helping to define strategies which ensure our products meet the needs of our clients and prospects.

Responsibilities:

  • Designs infrastructure platform and components to meet product and client requirements
  • Works with Software and Data Engineers to ensure requirements for security, scalability, availability, monitoring, and support are met
  • Monitors to ensure systems meet the requirements set for performance, capacity, availability, and security controls in line with ISO-27001
  • Defines DevOps best practises for building, testing, and releasing software components
  • Manages deployment, configuration and release of software components and systems to various environments
  • Writes and maintains infrastructure as code to facilitate automated and consistent creation and management of environments
  • Supports the Customer Support team with diagnostic and analysis of incidents and problems identified with deployed software components and systems
  • Works with Client Delivery teams to provide assurance to our customers pertaining to Security, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, etc.

Requirements:

  • Relevant experience of commercial infrastructure in the financial services sector
  • Significant exposure to Microsoft Azure cloud-based architecture and infrastructure, including native services such as App Service, Function App, Logic App, Azure SQL, SQL Managed Instance, CosmosDB, App Gateway, Front Door, AKS, and others
  • Deep hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD, and automation tooling including Terraform, ARM Templates, Azure DevOps, etc.
  • Experience managing Kubernetes platforms and containerised applications
  • Ability to contribute to the innovation and development of software solutions and demonstrate the ability to understand product and client requirements to define suitable solutions
  • Proven track record in supporting cloud-based infrastructure
  • Outstanding knowledge of security, capacity, performance, availability and monitoring best practices.
  • Capable of running high-performance and business critical solutions for both API and web-based solutions

About Zoopla

Hello, we’re Zoopla. We’re here to help people make intelligent decisions about their homes by digitising the home lifecycle.