Platform Engineer

Syntax Consultancy
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Today
£70,000 – £75,000 pa

Salary

£70,000 – £75,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
27 Apr 2026 (Today)

Benefits

Bonus Pension 22 days holiday (rising to 25 days) Death in service Health care plan

Platform Engineer - CloudFormation or Terraform

Leeds (Hybrid)

Permanent

£70,000- £75,000 + Benefits

Platform Engineer needed with active SC Security Clearance and good experience Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform. for a permanent position in Leeds (Hybrid). Start ideally in May 2026.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government digital modernisation projects.

Hybrid Working – 2 days/week remote (WFH), and 3 days/week working on-site from the Leeds office.

Key skills, experience + duties to include:

Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application.

Good understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.

Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation, ei.e. Jenkins and GitHub Actions.

Hands on CloudFormation scripting, troubleshooting and debugging.

Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions.

Using Automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.

Work closely with both engineers and product teams and including Designers, Product Managers and Analysts.

Working knowledge of Chef, scripting and troubleshooting and with Python scripting and troubleshooting

Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy scripting

Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services

Experience with AWS services – EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.

Active SC Security Clearance used last 12 months.

Government, GDS, (url removed) domain experience is strongly preferred.

Benefits: Salary 70k-75k (DOE) + Hybrid + Bonus + Pension + 22 days holiday + BHs (rising to 25 days) + Death in Service + Health Care Plan + More

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