Platform Engineer at Euromonitor International

Description

Reporting to the Platform Engineering Lead, you will work closely with the different Product Engineering teams, along with other functions such as Infrastructure/Operations, Cloud Engineers, Application Support and Client Services, to understand their challenges, goals and requirements and plan accordingly.

The ideal candidate will have strong Azure cloud infrastructure and Azure DevOps experience, supplemented by a proven track record of deploying resources in a structured technical environment using Agile methodologies. You will also be expected to help deliver on a deployment strategy and develop automated tools.

Technical Skills/Experience

Requirements

• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
• Expert knowledge of delivering solutions in Azure cloud within a large-scale enterprise environment.
• Great understanding of DevOps principles and how they assist in taking products to market in an effective manner.
• Experience of Automation/Configuration management tools as well as working in a continuous delivery environment, monitoring and tooling.
• Knowledge and experience in Azure, Kubernetes, Containerisation, Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Experience in managing permissions in Azure DevOps.
• Working experience in Application Gateways, App Services, Front-Door, Azure Service Bus, etc.
• Troubleshooting experience in virtual/cloud infrastructures.
• Experience in delivery of projects using IAC (Infrastructure as Code).

Personal Skills

• Communicative and social – Must be able to communicate well within his/her own teams and the broader Technology teams through verbal and written skills.
• Situationally Aware – Ability to think ahead and anticipate problems/issues and find solutions. Must be the first to notice differences and issues as they arise and elevate them to responsible roles.
• Conflict resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussions and facilitate alternatives or different approaches to resolving challenges.
• Coordinator – Building good professional relationship with cross-functional teams spread across different region/office of the organization.
• Critical thinking – Ability to apply sound logic and reasoning skills to facilitate decision making
• Culture driven – Dedicated to fostering a culture that is about creativity, communication, cutting-edge technology and the long-term development of staff.

Benefits

• International: Not only do we have a very multinational workforce in each office, but we are all dealing with our 15 offices worldwide on a daily basis.
• Flexibility: Euromonitor has adopted a hybrid working approach, with a minimum of two days in the office per week. You also have three weeks to work from anywhere.
• Benefits: We offer competitive salaries, medical aid contributions and a Core Hours policy allowing flexible start and finish times to each day in many of our offices.
• Opportunities to grow: The majority of our managers and directors have been promoted from within and many have moved across departments as well as upwards. We pride ourselves on identifying and rewarding talent. Committed to making a difference: We think that people are looking for something worthwhile in a company beyond the workplace. Our extensive Corporate Social Responsibility Program gives each member of staff two volunteering days a year in addition to holidays. It sees us reaching out into the local community with our mentoring, group volunteering, and fundraising initiatives as well as supporting international charities through our website sales, matching staff sponsorship fundraising, and carbon offsetting all our flights, amongst many other activities.

Euromonitor International is an equal opportunity employer: We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.