Devops Platform Engineer

Job summary

Join a fast-growing enterprise software business as a founding Platform Engineer, helping to define patterns, pipelines, and tooling for engineering teams. This role involves designing and building internal tooling, maintaining CI/CD pipelines, and treating developer experience as a product. You will have genuine influence over the platform's development and benefit from dedicated personal development time and an excellent benefits package.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering skills with real depth in at least one language, and a clear point of view on stacks, tooling, and trade-offs.
• Solid hands-on experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines, and running containerised workloads in production.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code - CloudFormation/CDK, Terraform, or Pulumi (Any) - and the confidence to build pipelines that hold up under real production load.
• A track record of building tooling or automation that other engineers rely on day-to-day, and strong communication skills to match.
• AWS experience, GitHub Actions, hands-on continuous release, progressive delivery, or production observability.

Responsibilities

• Designing and building internal tooling, templates, and scaffolding that make the right way the easy way for engineering teams across the business.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that are robust, fast, and production-ready - reducing friction for every team that depends on them.
• Treating developer experience as a product - gathering feedback from engineers, identifying pain points, and iterating toward solutions that deliver measurable value.
• Owning test architecture as a deliberate design problem - defining and embedding standards for unit, integration, and contract testing across the platform.
• Collaborating closely with engineers, architects, and stakeholders to surface ideas, take on feedback, and shape the direction of the platform engineering function.

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