Platform Engineer

3 weeks ago


Dublin, Dublin City, Ireland Lovin- JobBoard Full time
Basic Function & Purpose of the Role

Premier Lotteries Ireland

Job Title Senior Platform Engineer
Department Technology
Reporting to Head of Engineering
Direct Reports None,
Date completed/updated April 2024

Basic Function and Purpose of this Role


The platform engineer will work with a number of internal IT teams in a collaborative manner to support the development, deployment and operation of all PLI services.

The platform engineer will be a key member of the engineering team which is responsible for implementing the evolving design, development and maintenance of the core PLI IT environments.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities
The main tasks and responsibilities for the platform engineer is as follows:

Working with the project and development teams to understand requirements for the application infrastructure.
Developing the infrastructure to support the core applications for PLI.
Testing to verify that the infrastructure can handle the expected load and can recover from failures.
Configuration of servers, databases (where applicable) and other services to support the running of PLI's applications.
Integrate the platform and applications into PLI's monitoring tools.
Support Operating System upgrades across PLI's infrastructure.
Support infrastructure migrations where appropriate.
Management of telemetry and metrics gathering and display toolsets.
Provision of mentoring to IT operations in key operational tooling
Delivery of operational metrics and dashboards on an as-needed basis
Infrastructure capacity planning and management
Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with internal standards.
Installation and upgrading of server operating systems (Windows, Linux etc.)
Physically installing and removing servers from data centres.

Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Relevant Experience

5 years or more with LINUX/UNIX Administration
Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux & CentOS.
Experience with on premise deployed infrastructure.
Experience with cloud based deployed infrastructure.
Familiarity with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher
Experience with networked and software defined storage technologies.
Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
Extensive experience in configuring and supporting virtualization technologies.
Experience with HP/IBM/Lenovo server architecture and SAN technologies.
Proficiency with scripting languages in order to automate operations and minimize workloads (Python, Java, Bash, Perl etc.)
Database management systems (Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Experience in working with monitoring tools like Grafana and Prometheus is advantageous but not essential.

Key Competencies

Strong verbal and written communications skills.
Self-starter with demonstrated listening skills.
Serves as a mentor to junior and senior employees.
A trusted partner to the Head of Engineering in all matters relating to platform design and build.

Working Relationships

Internal – wider technologies teams (namely IT security and IT Projects team), key business stakeholders

External – Internet providers, hardware providers, 3rd party vendors.

About us


Premier Lotteries Ireland DAC (PLI) is the operator of the Irish National lottery having been awarded a 20-year license by the Irish Government in November 2014.

We are committed to delivering our core purpose, to operate a responsible and world-class lottery for the people of Ireland, raising much needed Good Cause funds for the benefit of local communities throughout Ireland.

Located in Abbey Street in the heart of Dublin, PLI is run by an experienced Irish based management team led by our CEO Andrew Algeo.

Life At National Lottery


Want to spend your days dreaming up ways to provide fun and entertainment to the people of Ireland, whilst supporting a host of Good Causes? Then the National Lottery could be the place for you.

We're always looking for positive and energetic people to join us and share in our vision to make dreams come true.

Why us?


At the National Lottery, we put our people first by cultivating a culture and environment that allows people to be at their best Check out the benefits and initiatives we provide to our staff here.

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