Senior Platform Engineer; DV Cleared

Position: Senior Platform Engineer (DV Cleared)
Location: Wood

# Join Kainos and Shape the Future At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a
** people-first culture**, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.
** Join us and be part of something bigger.
** Working within our Defence and National Security accounts you will be working on some of the most challenging and critically important projects working across various cloud technologies. MAIN PURPOSE OF

THE ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES IN THE BUSINESS:  As a Senior Platform Engineer (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading with the design of significant components of a modern digital service platform including its automation, build, deployment and support. It’s a fast-paced environment and you’ll be trusted to make sound, reasoned decisions.

You’ll do this whilst learning about new technologies and approaches, with talented colleagues that will help you to learn, develop and grow.  Your key responsibilities will include:  
• Working as part of a team - You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management and security capabilities to build, test and deploy software of the highest quality.  
• Using technology for positive impact – You’ll ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit. You’ll ensure alignment to industry standards and best practices.  
• Putting people first - you’ll support your colleagues and facilitate an inclusive Dev Ops culture in all that you do.  
• Finding your voice – As a respected voice within your team and to our customers, you’ll drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable and performant.  
• Supporting services through Live Operation – Getting services into production is just the beginning with the fun truly starting when real users start interacting with the service you’ve built. You’ll make sure the service is available, secure and performant as you strive to continuously improve it.  
• Becoming a Role Model – You’ll embody the Kainos values and be the person people look up to. You’ll proactively coach and mentor more junior members of the team.  
• Pushing the boundaries – Through exposure to technology you may develop specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.
MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS  
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – a proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team is crucial  
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues toothertechnicalpeople, and sometimes tonon-technical people.  
• Significant expertise in:  o Use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning and automation tools.  o Fluency in least one of the following:
Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.  
• Expertise in using multiple automation tools and at least one of:
Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy  
• Demonstrable experience in:  o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring andsupportingsignificantcomponents withinamoderndigital service platform in production environments.  o Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective and minimise lock-in.  o Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment, including architecture, estimation, product planning, user story/requirement creation and advocating MVP.  o Implementing modern

Continuous Deliveryprocessesfor releasing software for releasing software to production.  o Applyingindustrybest practices and patternsacross infrastructure and application components e.g. security, elasticity, performance.  o Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (AWS or Azure).  o Applying…