What is the opportunity?

Join our Data Solutions Platform Engineering team in this exciting time as we implement Bank of Ireland's new cloud based data platform.

As Platform Engineer, you will help design, implement and manage Infrastructure As Code (IAC) for our Data pipeline eco-system on our cloud environment and work with our agile delivery teams to engineer high quality solutions for all out data platforms.

We work in a very collaborative environment with a learning culture and you will use your experience to help guide future development across the team, the tools we use, help drive automation and introduce new and exciting engineering patterns and frameworks!

In this Role, you will

• Support our Infra As Code eco-system underpinning our cloud based data platform
• Enable and manage our CI/CD pipelines to build out complex data flows and process's
• Help us support the monitoring and telemetry for the performance of our data pipelines and API's, identify issues, and implement solutions
• Drive Automation/Continuous improvements, and maintain metrics, logs, and reports
• Keep up to date with advancements and best practices of Data and Cloud Platforms and related technologies
• Ensure engineering teams are following Platform engineering best practices and standards while driving improvements and efficiencies and mentor less experienced team members on best practices and standards

What Will Make You Stand Out

We are seeking a candidate with enthusiasm and a growth mentality who prioritises collaboration with others. You are proactive to achieve the necessary outcome while improving processes, team knowledge and tooling along the way!

You have a proven track record as Platform Engineer managing Infra As Code for cloud based data platforms with 3+ years working in an agile team in a technical leadership capacity. You have deep technical knowledge Cloud Technologies and Architecture, preferably AWS.

Key Technical Skills Required:

Strong knowledge in Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools like Terraform/OpenTofu or equivalent , ansible

Strong knowledge in DevOps tools & technologies such as Jenkins, GIT, Bitbucket, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Docker and Kubernetes

Extensive knowledge of Big Data technologies including Kafka, Hive, Spark, HBase, and PySpark

Experience with any of the following will help you to stand out but is not essential;

• AWS Administration experience - S3, EC2, EKS, ELK, IAM, VPC, EBS,KMS
• Experience with configuration and monitoring and logging tools like Splunk, Grafana, ELK stack, or CloudWatch
• Experience/Knowledge of Cloud data platforms like CDP/Data Bricks/Snow flake
• Knowledge of administering Cloudera clusters, ensuring high availability and performance optimization

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role.

More About The team

Our growing and exciting Data Solutions Engineering team provides the engineering services for the Group's Operational Data store, Enterprise Data Warehouse and Enterprise Data Lake. We sit within the Group Data & Analytics Office which is the core team for all things data in the bank.

We deliver the data elements to support Digital, Customer, Regulatory and other change initiatives that drive the Group's transformation agenda.

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Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with an opportunity for flexible working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions. Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy and working parent supports.

Your wellbeing is important to us; we have an employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches available. We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!