Digital Platform Engineer
Bournemouth - UK
Job Summary
Team Platform Engineering
Working Pattern - Hybrid 2days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or London Office.Full-time hours per week.
Top 3 skills needed for this role
- Proven multi-cloud engineering
- Advanced infrastructure automation expertise
- Strong operational problem solving
What this role is all about
Were looking for a Digital Platforms Engineer to build support and continuously improve the infrastructure powering Vitalitys digital applications. Youll work across cloud on-premise and DevOps technologies driving automation resilience and scalability while playing a key role in platform upgrades and re-platforming initiatives.Key Actions
- Design build and support resilient infrastructure and platform services across AWS GCP and wider digital environments ensuring they meet the availability scalability and operational needs of enterprise applications
- Automate the provisioning configuration and management of infrastructure using Terraform Ansible and Infrastructure as Code practices to improve consistency repeatability and deployment speed
- Provide day-to-day engineering support across development test and production environments balancing planned sprint commitments with incidents service requests and wider operational priorities
- Investigate and resolve complex platform and infrastructure issues involving Windows and Linux servers databases application servers server scripting and supporting cloud services
- Maintain and improve the DevOps toolchain including access management platform upgrades deployment tooling monitoring capabilities and CI/CD services used by technical teams
- Manage essential platform components including certificates API gateways routing and reverse proxy configurations to maintain secure and reliable communication between applications and services
- Coordinate server and application patching across the digital environment ensuring technologies remain secure supported and aligned with cloud and infrastructure best practices
- Work collaboratively with application development network and infrastructure teams alongside third-party service providers to deliver platform changes and resolve cross-functional technical challenges
- Identify opportunities to automate manual activities strengthen existing processes and contribute practical technical insight to the future direction and roadmap of platform technologies
What do you need to thrive
- Proven experience building supporting and troubleshooting highly available enterprise infrastructure and platforms
- Hands-on experience with AWS GCP or other major cloud platforms alongside Windows and Linux environments
- Strong experience with Terraform Ansible or similar Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
- Good understanding of scalable and resilient engineering practices including auto-scaling automated failover and deployment strategies
- Experience supporting DevOps toolchains and CI/CD with exposure to container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong communication collaboration and problem-solving skills with the ability to work across technical teams third-party providers and changing operational priorities
- Bonus Schemes A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
- A pension of up to 12% We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
- Our award-winning Vitality health insurance With its own set of rewards and benefits
- Life Assurance Four times annual salary
These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer please visit our careers page.Fantastic Benefits. Exciting rewards. Great career opportunities!
- Help you to be the healthiest youve ever been
- Create an environment that embraces you as you are and enables you to be your best self
- Give you flexibility on how where and when you work
- Help you advance your career by playing you to your strengths
- Give you a voice to help our business grow and make Vitality a great place to be
- Give you the space to try fail and learn
- Provide a healthy balance of challenge and support
- Recognise and reward you with a competitive salary and amazing benefits
- Be there for you when you need us
- Provide opportunities for you to be a force for good in society
We commit to all these things because we want you to feel that you belong and are supported to be happy and healthy.
Weve been a purpose and values-driven business from day 1- long before it became fashionable. Our core purpose is to make people healthier and enhance protect their lives. Vitality pioneered shared-value insurance. We incentivise people to live healthier longer lives they benefit our business benefits and society benefits. Were successful because we attract develop and retain the best people and because we care.
Plus you get to join our 1.7 million members with access to our unique health insurance and healthy living programme. Just to make sure you know our products inside and out.
Ready to find out if were the right fit for you We cant wait.
At Vitality were committed to diversity and inclusion because its good for our employees for our business and for society. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds experiences and perspectives.
Vitalitys approach to sustainability
Vitality is a business that drives positive change. We reward people for making and sustaining healthier choices. But healthy people also need a healthy environment. To learn more please visit our Careers page. #LI-Hybrid
If we are fortunate in receiving a high volume of quality applications we may need to close this vacancy early. If you are interested please submit your application as soon as possible.
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About Company
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