Senior Platform Developer

Job Description

This hybrid role offers a great balance of home and office working. You’ll join your colleagues in your local office 2-3 days a week.

As the UK’s largest fibre-only network, and its only proven wholesale challenger, we’re busy setting new standards for what digital infrastructure can and should be.

Designed from scratch for the internet, our network is greener, more reliable and ready for the future. The products we provide over it not only lead the market on speed, value and service, they help businesses to innovate, provide entire communities with a better foundation for their digital lives and support economic growth, locally and nationally.

What does that mean for you? The opportunity to make internet connections (and daily life) a whole lot better, for a lot of people!

Joining us as a Senior Platform Developer

As a Senior Platform Developer, you will be working within the Platform Development Squad to design, create and maintain IT infrastructure used by CityFibre. You will develop the tools and self-service capabilities to empower users of the platforms to seamlessly go about their work and operate their software.

You’ll receive a competitive salary, a performance related bonus, and a range of benefits to support you across your financial, physical and mental wellbeing.

This is some of what you can expect to be doing:

• Work with third party vendors to ensure DevOps best practices are followed
• Help maintain Kanban flow by removing any technical blockers with sound decision making
• Lead and manage the delivery of multiple projects at the same time to achieve agreed timescales

What you’ll bring to the role

You’ll have substantial experience of managing public cloud platforms and strong knowledge administrating and diagnosing Kafka brokers. You’ll also bring experience in: 

• Working with microservices
• Building and maintain CI/CD pipelines
• Event driven architecture

Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality. We’re endorsed by WORK180 and we’re a partner of Diversifying. We have pledged our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant and we’re a Disability Confident Employer. Working together with our Employee Networks, we’re wholly committed to ensuring that our people’s voices are heard, and that everyone feels a sense of belonging and pride to be a part of CityFibre. If you’d like to explore our culture and values, check out The CityFibre Way.
What you can expect from us

We want to offer you all the support you need to thrive inside and outside of work. This means giving you the tools to grow your career with us, as well as a comprehensive benefits package that you can adapt to your lifestyle. This includes 25 days annual leave, a day off on your birthday, a day off to support a charity or organisation of choice, a range of wellbeing and savings initiatives including private medical insurance, and supportive family friendly and menopause policies.

Additional Information

We want to create a sense of belonging for everyone. We celebrate our differences and work to ensure everyone has the best chance to succeed, starting with our recruitment process. No matter your background, family or carer status, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, gender, or gender identity, we welcome your application. If you need any support or reasonable adjustments throughout the application process, please email us at [email protected]. We want to help!