Platform Engineer

£42,000 to £62,000 + amazing benefits

Manchester city centre 

At Co-op Digital, we use digital technology to create better ways of doing business for our members, customers and communities. We’re agile, fast-moving and innovative. And we build services that respond to real user needs. Now we’re looking to recruit talented platform engineers to support the growth of our unique business. If you can bring us great technical skills, and you share our passion for openness and collaboration, we can offer you the opportunity to build a career with a business that’s using digital to make a difference. 

Our platform engineers provide automation, tooling and cloud infrastructure to our entire digital group. They’re embedded as experts in agile multi-disciplinary teams, and they’re part of a larger central team that can take on bigger pieces of work. Our delivery teams are autonomous and run their own delivery and deployments, all supported by our platform engineers. Our infrastructure is a healthy mix of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, and making the most of Infrastructure as Code technologies like Terraform, Packer, Jenkins and git for version control.

What you’ll do:

To be successful as a platform engineer at Co-op Digital, you’ll need a keen appreciation of modern best practices for managing cloud infrastructure (DevOps, configuration management), as well as a desire to work in agile environments and a good understanding of fundamentals (e.g. Linux, web technology stack). We’re flexible when it comes to your technical background (we find software engineers often make great platform engineers).

What you’ll bring: 

Why Co-op?

173 years ago a group of businessmen in Rochdale created an idea that changed the world. They realised that only by challenging the status-quo could they find solutions to the problems of their age. They were pioneers. And they left us a legacy that’s never been more important or relevant than it is today.

That’s why we’ve gone back to being Co-op. We want to change the world all over again, and we hope you’d like to join us on our journey. If you believe in our purpose, and you’re keen to help us re-discover that defiant spirit on which an institution was built, then join us. And make a real contribution to the revival of an iconic British brand.

You can find out more about what’s going on right now in Co-op Digital by visiting our blog or following us on Twitter.

We are actively seeking to build diverse teams and welcome applications from all people regardless of ethnicity, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status and will make adjustments to our interview process according to your needs.

We offer a flexible working environment, enabling our colleagues to adjust start and end times to accommodate a range of personal circumstances including nursery and school runs. Find out more about our maternity and paternity schemes, as well as a wide range of other Co-op people policies.

Desired Skills and Experience

  • develop and maintain scalable, resilient cloud-based infrastructure using an Infrastructure as Code approach
  • work with delivery teams to create and maintain continuous deployment practices
  • contribute to platform architecture and design and drive continuous improvement
  • work within and support a DevOps culture
  • provide monitor and manage the support service on a 24/7 rotation
  • experience working with cloud based infrastructure (e.g. AWS, Azure, Google Compute)
  • working experience with configuration management tooling (e.g. Puppet, Chef, Ansible)
  • familiarity with Unix/Linux operating systems and tooling
  • a desire to work using agile methodologies in a DevOps culture
  • an understanding of the full web technology stack (network, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, HTTP/S)
  • the ability to adapt and learn new technologies
  • great communication skills with the ability to collaborate with all kinds of people