Overview
Job Introduction
MPS are embarking on our ‘New World’ strategy, designed to help us be better, bolder and drive our business forward for our members. As part of this strategy, we have an exciting opportunity for IT Platform Engineer’s to join our Infrastructure and Operations team.
You’ll design, build, and maintain the infrastructure and platforms that power our organisation’s applications and services. You will ensure our systems are scalable, secure, and optimised for peak performance to support seamless business operations.
A key focus of this role is creating and managing an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) that streamlines software delivery. You’ll work closely with software engineering, DevOps, and IT teams to integrate and optimize platform solutions, while maintaining infrastructure reliability, security, and scalability to meet organisational goals and performance metrics.
If you’re passionate about building robust platforms that empower teams and drive business success, we want to hear from you.
Role Responsibility
As our new IT Platform Engineer, you will also:
- Track and manage reliability performance against agreed SLOs, in partnership with IT monitoring teams or other stakeholders, and ensure systems continue to meet SLOs over time
- Provide expert knowledge on reliability approaches, to ensure our organisation achieves its goals and roadmap for reliability
- Simplify the complexities of modern software delivery, enhancing developer productivity, and aligning development practices with business objectives
- Develop and automate deployment pipelines & API’s to streamline application delivery
- Use infrastructure platforms to reduce technical (infrastructure) debt, simplify and automate IT infrastructure, whether it is in the cloud, on-premises or edge.
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for:
- Familiarity or experience with Agile/DevOps/DevSecOps and platform engineering
- Knowledge of platform & IT management practices and certifications (ITIL, Agile, DevOps, SRE).
- Knowledge of platform tooling and practices (IaC. API’s, Self-service portals, Digital experiencing monitoring
- Experience with monitoring & Observability tools
- Strong knowledge of scripting and programming languages (IaC APIM etc)
Please view the role profile for the full list of essential and desirable criteria.
Package Description
About the Company
Medical Protection Society (MPS) is the world’s leading protection organisation for doctors, dentists and healthcare professionals. We protect and support the professional interests of almost 300,000 members around the world, in countries as diverse as the United Kingdom, South Africa and Hong Kong.
Our philosophy is to support safe practice in medicine and dentistry by helping to avert problems in the first place. We also actively campaign for regulatory and legal reforms that benefit members and the wider healthcare professions. Membership provides access to expert advice and support together with the right to request indemnity for complaints or claims arising from professional practice.
We continue to invest in our team to ensure that we are delivering the best possible service for members. This was recognised in 2016 when we were awarded an Investors in People Silver award.
