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 Logz.io 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, 3^rd party vendors.