Lead Platform Engineer

Job title:

Lead Platform Engineer

Company

Carnival Corporation

Job description

Job DescriptionCarnival UK is in search of a Lead Platform Engineer who is crucial in supporting our technological direction and nurturing a high-performing team.The Lead Platform Engineer will take responsibility for deploying, configuring, and operating IT Infrastructure platforms hosted on our ship and shore locations. Leading the planning, implementation and optimisation of the technologies and processes used to maintain Infrastructure platforms, encompassing, hypervisors, data storage, installing, testing, or decommissioning and removing, systems or system components.Your responsibilities will include:

• Investigate and manage the adoption of tools, techniques, and processes (including automation) for the management of systems and services.
• Lead, guide and mentor a team of engineers, and acting as an escalation point for colleagues across the Technology department
• Ensure that operational procedures and documentation are fit for purpose and kept up to date. Ensuring that operational issues are identified, recorded, monitored, and resolved. Provides appropriate status and other reports to specialists, users, and managers.
• Develops standards and guidelines for implementing data protection and disaster recovery functionality for all business applications and business data.

Positioned within our internal structure from CUK15 (entry level) to CUK1 (Brand President), this role is classified as a CUK08, offered as a full-time or part-time position, on a permanent basis. We offer hybrid work including up to two days from home.Requirements: Your Expertise and LeadershipTo thrive as a Platform Engineer Lead, we’re looking for:

• Experience with automation platforms, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet or Chef.
• Experience of Cloud technologies – AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Worked extensively with Kubernetes
• Experienced within Agile ways of working, Kanban and Scrum.
• Experience of Vmware vSphere, Nutanix or Hyper V virtualisation platforms.
• Experience in Microsoft or Linux operating systems

About You: A Catalyst for ChangeWe believe that diversity enriches our team. We’re interested in candidates who:

• Experienced in leading a team of engineers, with excellent interpersonal and relationship management skills.
• Forward thinking and with strong planning skills, high level of interest in providing technology driven solutions.

Why Join Us?Working with us is about more than a job. It’s about creating unforgettable holiday happiness for our guests and a fulfilling career for you. Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your wellbeing:

• Employee Discounted Cruising plus Friends and Family offers
• Annual bonus
• A friendly welcome with help settling in
• Regular office events including live entertainment, lifestyle events and charity partner fundraisers
• Minimum 25 days leave, bank holiday allowance and holiday trading scheme
• Employee Assistance and Wellbeing programmes
• Contributory Defined Contribution Pension scheme
• Company paid private medical and dental insurance and health assessment
• In-house Occupational Health help and access to digital GP
• Life Assurance
• Employee Shares Plan
• Discounted retail and leisure via discounts portal

Ready to Lead?If guiding a technology team to new heights excites you, we’re eager to hear from you. Apply now to start your journey with us, where your performance-led leadership will make a difference in our shared success#LI-Hybrid#Job Functions: Information Technology;#LI-JW1About UsHolidays are one of life’s greatest pleasures. Having the chance to relax, escape and explore is a magical thing. And there is no better holiday than a cruise.No one knows cruising like Carnival UK, where talented people from across the globe come together to create unforgettable holiday happiness. As part of the world’s largest holiday travel and leisure company, we take enormous pride in bringing to life two of the most iconic brands from Britain’s rich seafaring heritage, P&O Cruises and Cunard. Collectively they have been delivering unbridled joy, boundless adventure and lifelong memories to millions of people for over 350 years. And in a multi-million pound global holiday market, where cruising has barely scratched the surface, we have the opportunity to do that for many, many more people.Our diverse yet tight knit teams share high standards, heartfelt values and passion for our purpose. Our Culture Essentials describe the expectations we have for ourselves and of each other, in building a culture that supports safe, sustainable, compliant operations and celebrates diversity, equity and inclusion.It’s through the successful delivery of these extraordinary travel experiences for our target markets and our distinctive culture, that we hope to become Travel’s Employer of Choice.

Expected salary

Location

Southampton

Job date

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:19:27 GMT

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