About us

dxw works with the public and third sectors to create services and products that improve lives. 

We’ve been around since 2008 and worked on lots of projects that have made a real difference - things like helping to reduce reoffending, improving awareness of Adult Social Care and supporting organisations to move away from legacy tech.

dxw is employee-owned and staff have an important voice in the direction of the company. People - the people who work at dxw, our clients, and the people we create services for - are at the forefront of what we do. 

Everything we work on aligns with our mission, values, and principles. Our principles encompass a fundamental desire for us to look after our and our clients information. We handle clients' information and data with the utmost care and confidentiality and hold ISO27001 certification.

We encourage people looking for flexible working arrangements to apply.We think it’s important to have diverse teams and aim to create an environment where everyone is supported to do their best and be themselves.

About the role

dxw’s platform engineering team is responsible for developing, maintaining, operating and supporting our technical infrastructure.

Our infrastructure is cloud-based, and we’re improving and iterating our deployment stack over time towards better and more reliable technologies.  The team develops, implements and documents these technologies, working with our developers to understand and assist on their operational needs, and doing other client work as needed.

As an Platform Engineer you’ll contribute to work on our platforms, adding to their functionality and robustness. You will also deal with proactive and reactive maintenance, client support and be part of our regular on-call schedule.

You can be based remotely, and have the option of working from our offices in London or Leeds. Some client work may occasionally be necessary at sites around England and also occasional visits to London for team working, but this will be infrequent. 

We work in an agile way (but we don’t follow it too strictly), with a lot of collaboration and as a member of the platform engineering discipline at dxw, you’ll be involved in team and whole company away days, regular team forums and discussions, incident reviews, and other team activities. We’ll encourage and support your growth as much as you need and want. 

About you

You enjoy discussing and describing technical problems in simple, lay terms both internally and with clients, are a methodical problem solver, with the ability to keep calm under pressure and enjoy working collaboratively, as part of a team, towards a common goal.

You have experience of building platforms on AWS, familiarity with unix/linux systems and with popular open source software, particularly core web technologies such as Nginx, Apache, MySQL and PostgreSQL.

You can diagnose basic problems in a variety of programming languages and make or recommend simple fixes. You will have experience using source control systems (in particular, git) and using Infrastructure as Code systems, specifically Terraform, and container-based approaches, for example, Docker.

You may also have experience of building platforms on Azure and of building data platforms

Our public sector work means that appointments will be made subject to a background check and you must be living in and eligible to work in the UK.

Join us!

You can learn more about dxw, how we work and what matters to us on our website and by reading our playbook.

Our public sector work means that appointments will be made subject to a background check and you must be located and eligible to work in the UK at the point of application. 

Unfortunately we are currently unable to offer visa sponsorship.

If you have any questions around the role, we’d be pleased to answer them. Send a message to peopleteam@dxw.com and we’ll get back to you.