Datacore Platform Engineer

Circa 40k 45k salary dependant on skills and experience

Permanent

Full time / 37 hours a week

Hybrid role working from Huntingdon or Lincoln

26 day annual leave annual bonus double match pension (up to 6%) private healthcare

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in ether Huntingdon or Lincoln depending on your location.

Join Us as a Platform Engineer Shape the Future of Datacore at Anglian Water

Were on the lookout for a passionate and experienced Platform Engineer to join our dynamic and fastgrowing team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in managing optimising and evolving the Datacore Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) platform enabling the delivery of critical digital products that power our business.

In this handson role youll be responsible for the daytoday technical operations of the Datacore implementing maintaining and enhancing the platform using the right tools to deliver against our business needs. Youll help shape our digital future optimising the infrastructure/applications and technology that make up the platform focusing on improving efficiency and consistency.

As part of our Digital Engineering practice youll be embedded within a highenergy fastpaced environment collaborating with talented professionals across disciplines. Youll work closely with our wider engineering community teams driving improvements identifying opportunities for continuous service optimisation and ensuring our Datacore capabilities keep pace with business needs.

We work in a truly agile way so experience with methodologies like DevOps Scrum LESS or Kanban is essential. If you thrive in a fastpaced forwardthinking environment and love solving complex challenges with innovative solutions wed love to hear from you.

What Youll Be Doing

As a Platform Engineer working within our Operational Technology (DataCore) team youll play a handson role in maintaining and enhancing our Datacore cloud infrastructure. Your key responsibilities will include:

Delivering and configuring infrastructure changes

Monitoring performance load and security using Azurenative tools and taking proactive action

Ensuring our digital products meet service commitments and provide automated performance insights

Troubleshooting and preventing operational issues

Automating provisioning testing and deployment processes

Maintaining and enforcing bestpractice operational procedures

Leading and contributing to Communities of Practice to drive continuous improvement and innovation

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

Full private healthcare with no excess

26 days leave rising with service Bank Holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

A flexible working culture

Competitive pension scheme we doublematch your contributions up to 6%

Life Assurance at eight times your salary

Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

Bonus Scheme

What does it take to be a Platform Engineer

Were looking for someone who truly embodies our values doing the right thing building trust and always exploring new ways to improve. Youll lead by example fostering collaboration and inspiring those around you. Youll also:

Take ownership of risks and support robust risk management

Champion knowledge sharing and operational excellence

Support our Digital Engineering Centre for Enablement and Communities of Practice

Key Skills and experience:

Experience of configuring and maintaining a Cloud platform e.g. Amazon Web Service Azure (preferred) and Google Cloud Platform

Supporting DevOps and DataOps practices including CI/CD for pipelines and infrastructureascode

Proficient in an Infrastructure coding language (YAML PowerShell BICEP JSON Python) and tooling (Ansible/Terraform etc)

Experience in IIoT technologies such as MQTT brokers and Edge Computing

Experience in Containerisation such as Kubernetes and Docker

Recognised Microsoft certification or significant experience

Understanding of Agile delivery frameworks and methodologies

Working Knowledge of Service Management processes specifically Change Incident Event Configuration and Problem Management

Why Anglian Water

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and were proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do! If youre passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then wed love to hear from you.

Closing date: 18th May 2025

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