Platform Engineer (DevOps) - Streaming

About the role

ITV is hiring a DevOps / Platform Engineer in its Common Platform, embedded in a team within the Streaming business area based in the London office. The Streaming team delivers content to customers through its online platform, including the ITVX product. You will also join the wider Common Platform team, which shares best practice, capabilities and tooling across embedded Platform Engineers, and uses open source, cloud-native and SaaS tooling packaged in automated template architectures and Infrastructure as Code patterns.

Key responsibilities

• Implement Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and use the Common Platform
• Prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery within Streaming and support engineers with deployment and production issues
• Review and approve pull requests for new infrastructure, permission changes and access
• Maintain Streaming infrastructure, including the Common Platform (e.g. Prometheus)
• Manage upgrades of Kubernetes deployments in AWS
• Design the infrastructure for future applications or redesigns of existing ones
• Share best practice and contribute ideas and designs to the Common Platform team

Required profile

• Proven experience of secure cloud practices and building high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
• Proven experience of Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform) and version control strategies
• Proven experience of containerisation and deploying workloads on Kubernetes
• Proven experience of continuous delivery and integration patterns (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Proven experience of monitoring and alerting tools and of responding to production incidents
• Cloud cost optimisation while keeping infrastructure resilient
• In-depth knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Amazon Linux 2)
• Agile delivery experience
• Able to travel to London twice a week

Required skills

• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Kubernetes and Helm
• Linux (CentOS, Amazon Linux 2)
• Monitoring and alerting tools

What we offer

• Salary of £50,000 - £66,000
• Flexible working options
• Generous holiday allowance, plus the option to buy more
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Opportunity to buy ITV shares
• Wellbeing and volunteering days