Platform Engineer

DevOps Platform Engineer – Leicester, East Midlands, Leicestershire

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to build and maintain the internal platform that enables development teams to deliver software quickly, securely and reliably across cloud and on-premises environments.

THe Platform Engineer will work across Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and security, while helping create self-service tools and automation that make developers’ lives easier.

Key skills for this Platform Engineer:

Strong production experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Linux

AWS or another major cloud platform

Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Argo CD

CI/CD using GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar

Monitoring and observability, ideally OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana

Networking, security, secrets management and disaster recovery

Scripting/programming with Go, Python or Bash

Experience with on-premises/bare-metal environments

Experience with OpenShift, K3s, Docker Swarm, Cilium/eBPF, Backstage or AI-assisted engineering tools would be advantageous.

This is a great opportunity for a Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer to help shape a modern platform and influence how engineering teams build, deploy and operate software.

Keywords; DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Python, AWS, Terraform – Leicester, East Midlands, Loughborough, Coalville, Leicestershire, Corby

Erin Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy