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Job Description

Senior Platform Engineer

At Global we think big work hard and never stand still. Were the proud home of the best media and entertainment driven by our talented and passionate people. Our mission To make everyones day brighter - our Globallers our audiences our partners and our communities. Whether were in the studio building world-class technology or securing record Outdoor advertising partnerships we make sure were doing it as a team.

Your Role: Senior Platform Engineer

Join our Platform team and help shape the systems that power Globals technology platforms. Working across cloud infrastructures CI/CD pipelines and application hosting environments youll develop and improve scalable reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Global you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Platform Engineering & Automation: Support maintain and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS Kubernetes Jenkins and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python Java/Groovy Go and Terraform.

• Technical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security performance maintainability and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.

• Operational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments improve observability and monitoring systems and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.

What Youll Love About This Role

• Think Big:Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.

• Own It:Take responsibility for improving platform reliability automation and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.

• Keep it Simple:Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.

• Better Together:Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews pair programming continuous integration learning and knowledge sharing.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months youll have:

• Built a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture

• Contributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working

• Delivered new features fixes and platform enhancements

• Demonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery

• Shared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills

What Youll Need

• Platform & Cloud Engineering Experience:Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments

• Software Development & Automation Skills:Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities

• Systems Thinking:Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services

• Quality Engineering Mindset:Experience writing well-tested maintainable secure and performant code including infrastructure testing (e.g. Terraform Testing BDD-style integration tests)

• Stakeholder Collaboration:Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities

Creating a place we all belong at Global

We are dedicated to creating a place where different voices are represented amplified and celebrated. We know that we cant serve our diverse audiences without first celebrating it in our people which is why were passionate about creating an inclusive culture where every Globaller can belong. So no matter who you are or where you are from you can find your place at Global.

As a business we believe in the importance of a healthy work-life balance and the value of a flexible and agile workforce. Therefore we operate a Smart Working approach. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during your recruitment process drop us an email at well be happy to help.