Location
London, White City (Hybrid Working)

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
As a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Common Platform team, you will be embedded within the Streaming business area, working out of our London office. The Streaming team focuses on delivering content to customers through our online platform, particularly the innovative ITVX product. You will also collaborate with the wider Common Platform team to share best practices, capabilities, and tooling across ITV.

The Common Platform leverages open source, cloud native, and SaaS tooling, packaged into highly automated, easy-to-deploy template architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns. Your responsibilities will include designing and implementing infrastructure use cases, upgrading the platform, troubleshooting issues, and coaching software developers in AWS usage.

Key duties include implementing IaC with Terraform, prioritising work within Streaming for upgrades and business delivery, reviewing and approving pull requests, maintaining infrastructure including Prometheus, managing Kubernetes deployments in AWS, and defining infrastructure for new or redesigned applications. You will contribute ideas and improvements to the Common Platform team and help drive best practices across ITV.

Experience
- Proven experience with secure cloud practices and building high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS
- Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code technologies, ideally Terraform, with version control strategies
- Experience with containerisation and deploying container workloads, preferably on Kubernetes
- Familiarity with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration platforms such as Jenkins or GitHub Actions
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
- Proven ability to respond to production incidents and resolve infrastructure-related issues
- Knowledge of cloud cost optimisation balanced with resilient infrastructure needs
- In-depth knowledge of Linux (CentOS, Amazon Linux 2)
- Experience working within Agile delivery methodologies

About you
- Strong communication skills with the ability to provide and receive constructive feedback, especially in design and code collaboration (e.g. PR reviews)
- Passionate about working within a team structure and building relationships across multiple teams
- Able to travel to London twice a week to collaborate with the Common Platform and embedded Streaming teams
- Experience with Kubernetes management tools such as Helm

Qualifications
Relevant qualifications are advantageous but not explicitly required; emphasis is on proven skills and experience in the areas outlined above.