Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer
  

Do you enjoy being part of a team that works with a diverse range of products /technologies? 
  

Are you a highly skilled DevOps engineer and enjoy working with data? 
  

About the Business 
  

At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past and present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium https://www.cirium.com 
  

About our Team 
  

Data is at the core of what we do at Cirium. Unlike many businesses, our data isn’t about our customers. It’s about various facets of aviation: flights, aircraft, tickets, schedules, and more. We need to be able to work with this data in an agile fashion to develop new insights and solve customer problems. Our Data Platform is at the heart of our business and powers our ability to bring high value to our customers, and you will be joining a team that owns this fundamental enabler of our success. 
  

About the Role 
  

The Senior Software Engineer in a cross-functional team with the charter of building new capabilities into a structured, well-organized and governed data platform. This team consists of engineers passionate about data, infrastructure, and about building a platform that enables engineers to work with data in an agile and effective manner. 
  

Responsibilities 
  

·       Designing and building the infrastructure for ingest and egress for both batch and streaming data.

·       Collaborating with teams across our business to  assist them in utilising platform components or planning new features 

·       Implementing modern development processes, coding best practices, and code reviews 

·       Mentoring Engineers to help grown their skills and careers

·       Performing all parts of the lifecycle, including infrastructure build, code, deployment, QA, and monitoring

·       Delivering high-quality features through good agile, CI/CD and DevOps practices, and supporting your team in their engineering excellence. 

 
Requirements 
  

·       Be aware of differences and challenges of working with both streaming data sets and more traditional data sets 

·       Experience with AWS data stack (such as S3, Glue, Athena,) 

·       Experience with infrastructure as code 

·       Have working SQL knowledge and experience working with several relational databases 

·       Experience in Python

·       Have good interpersonal and written communications skills 

Women in Tech: 

Cirium is a part of LexisNexis Risk Solutions. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is actively supportive of women in Technology and has been a founding signature for the Tech Talent Charter. Currently 27% of our Technology workforce are women which is much higher than the UK average of 17%. We have the following initiatives in place to support women in technology: 

·       Mentoring scheme for women in technology 

·       Women’s network forum 

·       Women in Technology Employee Resource Group (ERG) 

·       LexisNexis Risk Solutions proudly supports the Tech Talent Charter 

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At LexisNexis Risk Solutions, having diverse employees with different perspectives is key to creating innovative new products for our global customers. We have 30 diversity employee networks globally and prioritize inclusive leadership and equitable processes as part of our culture. Our aim is for every employee to be the best version of themselves. We would actively welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups.

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