AWS Platform Engineer (Software Developer Background)

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and enabled by advanced technology the firm helps clients to deliver with greater confidence and certainty. With over 2000 people across the UK Europe North America Asia and Australia the firm combines global insight with local understanding.

The firm works across energy and resources financial services government and public sector consumer products and retail pharmaceuticals and life sciences manufacturing and technology media and telecoms with capabilities spanning strategy transformation and operational excellence all powered by advanced technology data AI and digital innovation.

Clients value Baringas collaborative approach and the way its teams integrate seamlessly all working with a shared understanding of what matters most. The firm is known for its kind curious experts who listen closely and care deeply about client success as they help clients transform energy markets modernise financial platforms expand telecoms and digital networks through advanced data analytics enable digital services in government and unlock growth in consumer sectors.

Certified as aGreat Place to Work around the world Baringa has been recognised by the Financial Times in 22 categories of its UK Leading Management Consultants rankings and by Forbes for four consecutive years as one of the Worlds Best Management Consulting Firms.

Our Solutions & AI Labs (SAIL) practice focuses on helping clients control their data turn them into actionable insights and better leverage them through the use of Machine Learning solutions directly embedded into businesses processes. We support clients across a number of industries and offer deep expertise in AI ML Cloud and Managed Solutions.

You will be using your experience to help build andmaintaininternal and client would be also responsible to support the growth of our team helping them to build the skills they need to solve our clients challenges. Depending on the level you can be a part of our leadership team shaping the direction of the practice growing thebusinessand leading our people.

Although we do not expect you to be an expert inall ofthe below activities at the same time our team consists of people who can both work as advisors to our clients as well as being able to bring deep technical knowledge when needed. The profile of our typical engagementsis a reflection ofthat.

This role supports both internal B2B solutions and external client projects delivered either as a managed service hosted by us or deployed on client infrastructure.

Key responsibilities based on one of the below areas:

Developer Experience and the Internal Developer Platform

• Developer Experience First:Treat developers as your customers. Build the tools services and self-service workflows that remove friction and accelerate delivery.
• Internal Developer Platform:Contribute to and extend our IDP Terraform modules CLIs and tooling owning versioning and backwards compatibility.
• Production Backend Development:Design build deploy andoperateproduction APIs and services from first commit through to live running.
• Release Engineering:Work with feature flags and trunk-based development and co-ordinate releases across teams.
• Delivery Leadership:Break defined projects into features user stories and tasks map out deliverables and coach junior engineers to do the same.

AI Platform Engineering

• AI Gateway:Build andoperatea centralised governed gateway for model access routingguardrailsand cost control.
• Centralised AI Developer Platform:Provide the shared services and paved roads that let product teams ship AI features safely.
• Agents Knowledge and Memory:Deliver Amazon BedrockAgentCoreagents knowledgebasesand memory into production.
• Platform CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD Systems:Design develop and evolve modular CI/CD systems and reusable extensible artifacts that other engineering teams build on.
• Infrastructure as Code:Write and maintainIaCand automate application deployment using industry-standard tools and services.
• Resilience and Operations:Design for high availability and disaster recovery and define the monitoring logging and alerting standards that go with it.

Security and Architecture

• Security by Design:Put security at the heart of every module you write and every architecture you design with policies planned enforced and compliant with industry standards.
• Solution Design:Translate functional and non-functional requirements into simple robust architectures thatcomply withorganisational strategy and standards.

Werelooking for experiencedengineerswho cansupport andbridge the gap between the developers and consultancyteamsin which solve our clients most complex issuesand bringtheirsolutions to life.

• You are alifelong learnerexcited by solving complex client problems and committed to developing your own skills and the team around you.

• You lead from the frontowningandrunningengagementsinteractingwithstakeholdersand making recommendations which shape the project.

• You have5-7 yearsofhands onAWS delivery across Platform Engineering Solution Design and Cloud Architecture and separately5-7 yearsas a workingsoftware developerinPythonGoor Java.This is a developer-first platform role: we are looking for engineers who write and ship software not only engineers who configure it.

You will have a mix of technical skills including some of the below:

• Deephands ondevelopment experiencein at least one backend language: Python Go or Java working as a backend developer rather than writing automation scripts and pipeline glue.

• You have designedbuiltanddeployed production APIsand services and supported them once live. You can talk us through something you shipped the trade-offs you made and what broke.

• Hands on experience building andmaintainingInternal Developer Platforms: contributing to the platform Terraform CLI and tooling and managing versioning and releases.

• Comfortable with feature flags and trunk-based development and happy to co-ordinate releases across teams.

• Ability to design build and evolve modular CI/CD templates and Infrastructure as Code that centralise governance and raise the quality bar for development teams.

• Security by default in the modules you create and the architectures you design alongside high availability disasterrecoveryand monitoring.

• Interest in or experience of building AI platform capability: AI gateways centralised AI developer platforms and Amazon BedrockAgentCoreagents knowledgebasesand memory.
  
  
• Able to define standards and defend your proposals when challenged by other architecture and security teams.

• Generous Annual Leave Policy:We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave fully available at the start of each addition to this we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.

• Flexible Working:We know that the ideal work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.

• Corporate Responsibility Days:Our world is important to us so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.

• Wellbeing Fund:We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. Weve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.

• Profit Share Scheme:All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the companys success.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity innovation and value for our clients and for our people.

You can be a part of our Great Place to Work with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all.Click hereto see some of our recent awards and how weve achieved this.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work and offer a variety of ways to contribute by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills talent and essence we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race ethnicity religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation nationality disability age faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.

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