Tracsis
Lead Platform Engineer - AWS
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Lead Platform Engineer
Remote - With visits to Leeds office
Our talented people are creating the technology of the future.
From scheduling to maintenance to keeping people safe, 2.7 million people are helped by our software daily. Technology makes it possible; people make it happen and you could be part of that.
The Tracsis Group has grown rapidly, diversifying into related transport technologies, and successfully executing a strategy that has seen it make a total of seventeen acquisitions.
Today Tracsis is a leading provider of software, hardware, data analytics/GIS and services for the rail, traffic data and wider transport industries. The Group has c.550 permanent employees serving its growing customer base from offices in the UK, Ireland and the US.
The Role
We're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to help design, build and operate our AWS-based platform. As a senior technical contributor within our Platform Engineering function, you'll play a key role in shaping the capabilities that underpin our strategic objectives across Developer Experience, Service Reliability, and Business Agility.
You’ll work primarily with AWS (EKS), alongside the CNCF ecosystem, Istio service mesh, ArgoCD, Terraform & Crossplane, and GitLab CI/CD. Experience with GKE or Azure is a plus. You’ll need solid skills in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java or C#) and strong Linux administration.
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Key technologies:
- Observability: Grafana stack, Thanos, Loki, Tempo, Jaeger
- Security: HashiCorp Vault, IAM, policy-as-code
- FinOps and cost optimisation
What you will do
- Owning technical strategy and architecture for the platform
- Driving incident management, reliability, observability and on-call production ownership
- Mentoring and motivating colleagues to raise the technical bar
- Improving developer experience and working hand-in-glove with the developer community
- Building secure, observable and scalable cloud-native platforms with self-service concepts at scale
- Living an “automate everything” philosophy while keeping a close eye on cost (FinOps)
What you'll bring:
- 5–8+ years in platform, SRE or DevOps roles
- Strong production experience with EKS (primary), Istio service mesh and GitOps, with exposure to GKE or Azure
- Hands-on expertise with Terraform, Crossplane and GitLab CI/CD
- Solid Linux administration skills and understanding of self-service concepts at scale
- Strong focus on security (Vault, IAM), observability (Grafana/Thanos/Loki/Tempo/Jaeger) and FinOp
- Comfortable with on-call and production ownership
- A pragmatic engineering mindset with clear ownership, the ability to motivate others, and a drive to automate everything
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Our values
We’re guided by four core values that shape how we work and collaborate:
- Progression – continually improving and developing
- Integrity – doing the right thing, always
- Collaboration – working together to achieve more
- Ownership – taking responsibility and delivering with accountability
Benefits:
- Flexible working hours to support work-life balance
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Competitive salary
- Udemy Licence for learning and development
- Bupa Medical Health care
- Life assurance (3x basic salary)
- Enhanced Parental Leave
- 2 volunteering days per year
- Tusker Car Scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
Our process
Our process is designed for us to understand your skills and experience and to give you the opportunity to find out more about the role, as well as the company.
We are committed to building a diverse workforce. Even if you do not tick all the boxes, we would still love to hear from you! If you require any adjustments or additional support during the application and interview process do not hesitate to get in touch.
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