Senior Platform Engineer

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer health company. Shaped by all who join us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for billions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re in control of. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.

With category leading brands such as Sensodyne, Voltaren and Centrum, built on trusted science and human understanding, and combined with our passion, knowledge and expertise, we’re uniquely placed to do this and to grow a strong, successful business.

This is an exciting time to join us and help shape the future. It’s an opportunity to be part of something special.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Software Engineer to engage with our innovative Shared Capabilities team. The ideal candidate will possess experience in building and maintaining containerized software and tooling and have an interest in cross-skilling into a Platform Engineering skillset. This role offers the opportunity to join a team that helps to underpin the success of other Engineering teams at Haleon.

Step into a high-impact role at Haleon as a Senior Software Engineer and help shape the future of platform capabilities that empower engineering teams across the organization!.

Key Responsibilities

• Build, maintain and drive the Internal Developer Platform (Backstage tool) that acts as the entry point to our Shared Capabilities function.
• Design, maintain, build and lead custom applications and tooling where necessary to facilitate our Azure Kubernetes platform.
• Utilize your extensive skills as a Software Engineer to help upskill other Software Engineers to write effective code when running on a container platform.
• Stay on top of Azure platform capabilities that may be beneficial for writing large scale applications and help other teams design such applications.
• Cross-skill into contributing to the lifecycle management of platform resources, including Kubernetes clusters, networking, storage, and supported Azure services. This will involve developing and maintaining Terraform modules, GitHub pipelines and ArgoCD GitOps processes.
• Drive automation of operational processes to improve platform efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Provide Level 3 software engineering support for application issues, incident response, and troubleshooting complex problems related to Applications running on our Kubernetes platform.
• Debugging complex software and hardware interactions.
• Collaborate with internal and external support teams as needed.
• Own the maintenance of platform documentation and contribute to process improvement for change management and access controls.
• Help to lead Agile ceremonies.

Qualifications And Skills

Essential

• 8 years of hands on experience in the similar role/relevant filed
• Proven track record in developing software systems in any applicable languages/frameworks (Node.js, Python, Go), and willingness to adopt the appropriate language to best complete your tasks.
• Deep understanding of containerization, including how to create multi-stage Docker files, and able to demonstrate how to reduce build times.
• Experience of developing or working with APIs to create integration between subsystems
• Deep experience and understanding of modern DevSecOps platform technologies, specifically GitHub version control & CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions.
• A clear curiosity driven mindset, you are always eager to understand how something works and how it can be improved.
• Demonstratable skills of how to quickly identify and address runtime issues with containerized applications on a Kubernetes platform.
• Strong knowledge of database systems, including MongoDB and PostgreSQL.
• Demonstratable experience innovating within organizations, identifying and incorporating new technologies, methodologies, and industry best practices into the engineering process.
• Experience thriving in a Scrum based Agile development. You will be required to participate in Daily Standups & Sprint Retrospectives to help us improve.
• Excellent communication skills when interacting with Software Engineers who may or may not be fully familiar with Kubernetes.

Preferred

• Existing Platform Engineering skillset, especially Terraform, GitOps and Kubernetes.
• Azure Architect or Developer certifications.
• Existing knowledge or experience of developing the Backstage IDP.

Opportunities For Growth

Improving everyday health takes dedication. Energy. Effort. So we look to reward your contribution with a benefits package that includes: 

• A competitive base salary 

• Contract Of Employment

• Annual bonus that reflects performance 
• Life insurance and pension plan 
• Private medical package with additional preventive healthcare services

• Sports Cards (Multisport)

• Health and wellbeing program that take care of you physically and mentally 
• Pension plan membership and savings program 
• Recognition program that reward incredible contributions 
• Hybrid@Haleon our philosophy to hybrid work (2 days of on-site work per week) 
• Possibilities of development within the role and company’s structure 

#Li-Hybrid

Care to join us. Find out what life at Haleon is really like www.haleon.com/careers/

At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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