Platform Engineering Manager

Fruition IT are proud to be supporting Care Quality Commission as they look to recruit a number of key positions into their technology team.

CQC play a crucial role in the UK health and social care sector, ensuring health and social care services provide people with safe, effective, compassionate, high-quality care and they encourage care services to improve.

CQC offer a supportive and inclusive environment where you will get the chance to make a real difference.

Salary: Up to £57,891 (Outside of London) or up to £63,293 (London office based or homebased and live within the boundary of the M25). For exceptional candidates a higher salary may be available.

There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £553 per annum for those working from home.

Location: CQC offer remote working but there will be a requirement to occasionally be onsite at one of their main office locations (London, Leeds and Newcastle). Any travel would be fully expensed and timings flexible to allow people to travel at realistic times.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of Platform Engineers to design, build test and maintain the cloud application infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines that underpin all internal and external Digital services.
• Ensure security, stability and capacity is Embedded in the development and deployment of services.
• Champion a Platform Engineering culture by creating and building close collaboration and working practices between the product, engineering and operational business services teams supported by the appropriate use of automation tools.
• Manage and develop the Platform Engineering capability by providing technical leadership for the in-house team and external suppliers.
• Contribute to business case development, articulating benefits and return on investment.
• Ensure solutions delivered to time, cost and quality requirements.
• Design solutions and services with security controls Embedded, specifically engineered as mitigation against security threats as a core part of the solutions and services.
• Lead the teams in support, design and implementation of infrastructure technologies and solutions such as: compute, storage, networking, physical infrastructure, database, software, commercial off the shelf (COTS) and open source packages and solutions, virtual and cloud including IaaS, PaaS and SaaS.

Required Skills/Experience

• Demonstrable experience managing highly skilled Platform Engineers, DevOps Engineers or Software Engineers including mentoring and driving best practice.
• Strong technical background, either from a software engineering or infrastructure engineering background, with strong experience in Platform Engineering tooling and techniques.
• Experienced driving efficiencies, through automation and process design and implementation in particular in the automation of application deployment methodologies.
• Experience of building and optimising deployment pipelines and deployment strategies on popular CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience designing, securing, scaling and administering cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Experience managing complex, multi-server services in a high availability production environment.
• Solid understanding of containerisation, ideally having implemented Docker containers into production environments.
• Experience of Agile tools and processes eg Azure DevOps etc.
• Knowledge and understanding of latest trends in DevOps/Platform Engineering methodologies, processes, and tools as well as emerging solutions and ability to apply them when appropriate.

CCQ Care committed to promoting a fair and inclusive workplace. They want all their staff to be able to flourish and reach their full potential. They are registered with a number of national schemes and initiatives that promote a diverse and inclusive workplace.

If this role would be of interest, then please apply to this advert and I will be in contact to give you more detail.

Fruition are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.