Jobs / Radar Healthcare
Platform Engineer
Radar Healthcare · Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom60,000-? GBPRemote
Remuneration
60,000-? GBP
Location
Leeds, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Radar Healthcare is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the implementation and modernization of the company’s cloud infrastructure and platform services. This role focuses on improving reliability, performance, scalability, security, and developer experience, enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly and safely. The Platform Engineer will work closely with platform and engineering teams to implement agreed designs, owning platform components across build, operation, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
Competitive salaryValues-led cultureFlexible working25 days holiday plus bank holidaysOption to buy additional holidayBirthday off with surpriseCharity leaveMental healthcare supportEmployee Assistance ProgramHealthcare coverage with MedicashLife cover (3x salary)Compassionate leave (up to 5 days)Enhanced sick payEnhanced family leavePension contribution (3%)Provided technology (laptop, second screen, keyboard, mouse)Dog friendly officeCompany and team socialsDiscounts on cinema, vouchers, gym membershipsMonthly flexible benefits allowance
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience operating and supporting workloads on Azure or AWS, including troubleshooting and production support.
- Solid understanding of microservices-based and distributed systems, and their deployment using containerized, serverless, and VM models.
- Experience implementing and operating Terraform in multi-zone production environments, using modular, DRY designs, secure state backends, and working with greenfield and existing infrastructure.
- Good understanding of container lifecycles, image creation, networking, and secure deployment automation.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions) covering build, test, security scanning, Terraform deployments, and secure artifact and secret management.
- Comfortable scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash.
- Experience with observability stacks such as Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana, including alerting best practices and troubleshooting.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.
- Experience with a general-purpose language such as Python is beneficial.
- Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs is desirable.
- Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux, including environment promotion and drift management.
Responsibilities
- Build, operate, and maintain resilient, scalable platform foundations across environments.
- Support and run services on Azure and AWS, applying least-privilege access, audited controls, and automation.
- Implement deployment workflows, self-service capabilities, golden paths, and reusable templates.
- Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform with modular, DRY patterns, testing, and CI/CD integration.
- Apply SRE principles, supporting capacity planning, reliability improvements, and secure-by-default patterns.
- Implement logging, metrics, and tracing.
- Create dashboards and alerts.
- Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver platform capabilities and manage operational risk.
Skills
Argo CDAWSAzureAzure MonitorBashFluxGitHubGitHub ActionsGrafanaKubernetesPowerShellPrometheusPythonTerraform
Languages
Python
Industry
Healthcare
Relocation
No