Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)
On site
Exeter, United Kingdom
Full Time
05-03-2025
Job Specifications
About The Role
Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)
We’re free thinkers. We’re innovators. We’re #ConsultantsWhoCode.
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer (Azure) who has a passion for platform engineering, to join our Engineering team here at EDF.
We are seeking someone with passion, skills and experience to help our Azure Platform team evolve to the next level and to truly unlock our application engineering teams.
The Opportunity…
Our Engineering practise is a collective of multi-disciplined engineers comprising of generalists and specialists; be it front-end, back-end, full stack developer or DevOps and Platform Engineering. We offer opportunities for engineers who want to help shape, develop and grow our engineering practice, whilst developing their own skills, knowledge and career.
We’re evolving our IT landscape from traditional on-premise monoliths, to a collection of scalable, independent micro services, which enable us to react to the fast paced nature of the energy industry and uncertainty.
Our Engineering practice is at the heart of this transformation and we encourage our engineering community to really understand our challenges, what our customers need from us, and to create practical applications that solve business needs.
Pay, Benefits And Culture
Alongside a starting salary of £70,000 (DOE), potential to earn 5% bonus, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays and a market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits to support our people across all aspects of their lives.
Your rewards package includes a choice of benefits, such as electric vehicle leasing, enhanced parental leave, health insurance, discounts and employee pricing.
Flexible working means you can work from home (if you wish) and we’ll provide a suite of IT equipment to ensure that you can work remotely comfortably and effectively. Our Azure Platform Engineering team can work flexibly from home or the office, balancing the working day with personal commitments. We have offices in London, Brighton, Exeter and Plymouth.
Steve Bowerman, Principal Software Engineer says “It’s an exciting time. We’ve got a great start-up culture in a larger organisation, with the corporate stability and backing. And that real emphasis on being able to affect change is very important for me.”
At EDF, everyone’s welcome. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone has a voice and where you feel confident being yourself. We’re committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We’d like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.
We’ll value the difference you bring and offer opportunities for you to thrive and succeed.
What You’ll Be Doing
Our core working methods are based around modern DevOps process; shift-left, test automation, SRE, CICD, and "everything as code" mindset.
The team is growing rapidly, and we are always looking for different levels of talent. Our preference is to promote within the team and grow our engineers into seniors and leads where they have the aptitude and desire.
Provide day-to-day mentoring and supporting your peers; reviewing the quality of development and engineering work to ensure these meets required standards. Provides feedback to team members when changes are required to decrease errors and to promote continuous improvement
Take ownership of a solution feature set or solution capability.
Delivery of platform functions, features and components, utilising agile software development life cycle methods and practices.
Create well-designed, testable code that enables automation of test and deployment activity.
Utilise continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) techniques in developing software components.
Integrate components into the broad functional and technical solution landscape, using common standards and patterns.
Document and maintain platform functionality for it to be understood and utilised by others – including Contribution to design artefacts, operating instructions and run books and end-user material.
A strong focus on building self-service, gitops processes
Contribution to wider engineering community direction, tooling and technologies.
Who You Are
Whilst we’re looking for the following skills, you will have the opportunity to work across the team and develop expertise in different areas. So, if you don't have all of the below but have a clear passion for software engineering, we'd love to hear from you!
Experienced in the development and support of Cloud Landing Zones, particularly Azure
Expertise in at least one server-side language (Ideally, Python or NodeJS)
Experienced in source control and CI / CD tooling technologies (e.g. GitHub, Terraform, Azure DevOps)
Experience in monitoring using tooling technologies (e.g. Dynatrace and Azure Monitor)
Experience of agile collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence
You thrive in an evolving environment where you get the opportunity to contribute to diverse projects and innovate new solutions to business challenges. At EDF, you can experience different teams and feel like you’re in a new job, without changing companies.
You’re looking for an opportunity to work flexibly, develop your skills and leave your print on a blank canvas.
Closing date for applications: 10/03/2025
What's in it for you?
Success is personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and we'll help Britain achieve Net Zero together.
About the Company
EDF is helping Britain achieve Net Zero by leading the transition to a cleaner, low-emission, electric future and helping prevent future energy crises. Our nuclear fleet has supplied low-carbon electricity to UK homes for more than 40 years, and we’re helping with the development of new nuclear stations at Hinkley Point C and Sizewell C. But we’re not stopping there. EDF is also investing in wind, solar and battery storage technology and helping customers decarbonise their homes and businesses through low-carbon tech such... Know more
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