Platform Engineer (Contract)
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Job Description
About Us
Two Circles is a data-driven sports marketing business. We work with the worlds biggest sports organisations including the NFL Premier League Formula 1 Wimbledon and UEFA and have four times been named Sport Industry Agency of the Year.
We have over 1000 Two Circlers across the globe operating in eight cities across three core regions (LA Kansas City Miami NYC London Bern Paris and Melbourne). Include Tech focused regions APAC EMEA and Americas.
As part of our continued growth we are recruiting an Engineering Director EMEA to lead our digital engineering capability across the region. This is a senior leadership role responsible for building and managing engineering teams ensuring delivery discipline and driving scalable digital solutions for our clients. You will also play an active role in shaping our global technology alignment collaborating with peers in other regions to ensure consistent ways of working and shared best practice across Two Circles.
Platform Engineer Role Overview
You will join the team working in our Two Circles London office. Working in the office the majority of the week with some flexibility to work from home when required youll join a highly experienced and innovative Platform Engineering team. Platform Engineering supports manages and enhances the Two Circles cloud estate while also partnering with client teams to deliver new projects.
You will be part of a team delivering both greenfield deployments as well as supporting the improvement and maintenance of our shared tenant platforms. Youll collaborate with talented colleagues to drive innovation accelerate problem-solving and enhance your professional growth. Our team-oriented environment encourages creativity and open communication helping us to build stronger connections and deliver exceptional outcomes for our clients. Youll become part of a supportive community dedicated to shared success providing an inspiring atmosphere in which to advance your career. While we reference AWS skill in the skills and responsibilities the priority skillsets required for this contract role are Azure skills.
Requirements
Core Responsibilities
- Design deploy and manage scalable and resilient infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and AWS.
- Maintain and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Bicep Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Drive best practices around cross-cloud networking security monitoring backups and key management.
- Configure and lead adoption of CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or AWS CodePipeline.
- Proactively manage system performance monitoring and observability to ensure resilience across our cloud estates.
- Implement and enforce security practices including IAM encryption standards and PoLP (Principle of Least Privilege).
- Architect and troubleshoot multi-cloud networking components such as VPNs VPC/VNET peering routing DNS and firewalls to enable seamless integration between Azure and AWS.
- Maintain and troubleshoot issues at the operating system and application level (Windows Server SQL Server IIS Linux).
- Collaborate with application and data engineering teams to support pipelines and tooling (e.g. Azure Data Factory Databricks AWS Glue Redshift).
- Contribute to disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BCP) strategies across multiple cloud platforms.
Skills & Experience Required
Were looking for someone with strong hands-on experience and a proactive mindset:
- Deep experience with Azure cloud infrastructure and services.
- Strong knowledge of cloud networking (hybrid multi-cloud VPNs routing peering security groups firewalls).
- Expert-level proficiency in IaC (Bicep ARM Terraform or CloudFormation desirable).
- Proven ability to deliver CI/CD workflows across Azure and AWS platforms.
- Strong scripting and automation with PowerShell Python Bash or similar tools.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement monitoring and observability solutions (Azure Monitor CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana or similar).
- Knowledge of security best practices in cloud including WAFs and compliance standards.
- Demonstrated capability to work across complex distributed systems and resolve production incidents.
Additional Skills / Qualifications (Beneficial)
- Certifications: Azure Administrator Associate / Solutions Architect Expert AWS Solutions Architect Associate / Professional.
- Experience with other cloud platforms AWS Google would AWS cloud infrastructure and services.
- Experience with multi-cloud networking design and cross-cloud integration.
- Exposure to containerization and orchestration tools: Docker Kubernetes AKS or EKS.
- SQL database administration for both IaaS and PaaS environments.
- Experience supporting data pipelines and analytics ecosystems.
Employment Type
Contract
