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Senior Platform Engineer (DevEx and Cloud Ops)
On *** · Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Manchester, ENG, United KingdomFull timeHybrid
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
Manchester, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa
Job summary
The Senior Platform Engineer improves the platform that product teams use to build, deploy, and operate software, working across cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, automation, and operational engineering. The role includes developing self-service tools and reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns, strengthening CI/CD, reliability, observability, security, and FinOps, and exploring AI-assisted engineering workflows while supporting and mentoring other engineers.
Benefits
25 days of annual leave plus a day off for your birthdayHoliday discountsTwo additional annual leave days for use on a package holidayLearning platform, workshops, courses, and professional qualificationsEnhanced family leave payEmployee Assistance Programme and counsellingHealth planCompany sick payWellbeing eventsGym discountShare Incentive PlanDeath in Service coverSubsidised coffee shopFood and drink discountsSocial eventsCycle to Work scheme
Qualifications
- Strong background in platform engineering, cloud, infrastructure, or developer tooling
- Experience with AWS and modern cloud-native environments
- Experience with some combination of infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, automation, and developer tooling
- Ability to understand complex systems and make sound engineering trade-offs
- Ability to develop practical solutions for ambiguous problems across team boundaries
Responsibilities
- Work with engineering, Digital Workplace, and InfoSec teams to develop scalable platform solutions
- Improve self-service tooling and developer workflows
- Build reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns
- Develop CI/CD capabilities
- Improve cloud reliability and scalability
- Help teams understand system performance and costs
- Contribute to observability, security, and FinOps
- Explore AI-assisted tooling and engineering automation
- Take ownership of complex problems and make pragmatic technical decisions
- Shape the evolution of the engineering platform
- Support engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing
Skills
AWSKubernetesGitHub Actions
Work schedule
37.5 hours per weekCore hours between 10am and 4pmIn-office two days per week, usually Tuesday and WednesdayOccasional on-call responsibilities
Industry
Travel
Relocation
No