Senior Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer / Senior Platform Engineer

AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | Linux

- Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)

- £75,000 - £110,000 (Dependant on experience and location) + excellent benefits!

- Hybrid (upto 30% onsite, 70% working from home)

- Multiple UK Locations | Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands, East Midlands

We are working with one of the UK's leading technology companies who are looking to onboard a number of Platform Engineers and Senior Platform Engineers as part of a major expansion.

You'll join a highly experienced engineering team designing, building and supporting enterprise cloud platforms used across large-scale, business-critical environments. This is an opportunity to work with modern cloud-native technologies while helping shape the future of platform engineering. The ideal candidate will have had prior experience building and owning enterprise platforms (ideally 100+ user base).

What you'll be doing:

- Designing and building AWS cloud platforms

- Building and supporting Kubernetes environments (EKS/AKS)

- Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

- Creating CI/CD pipelines and automation

- Building Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) and self-service tooling

- Improving observability, reliability and platform performance

- Working closely with architects and engineering teams on large-scale transformation programmes

To be suitable, you must have experience with most of the following:

- AWS

- Kubernetes

- Terraform

- Linux

- Git

- CI/CD

- Infrastructure as Code

- Platform Engineering or DevOps

Desirable but not essential - Experience with GitOps, Observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry), SRE or DevSecOps.

What's on offer?

- £75,000 - £110,000 depending on experience and location

- Hybrid working (upto 30% onsite, 70% working from home)

- Private healthcare

- Excellent pension

- 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

- Ongoing technical training and certifications

- Clear progression into Lead, Principal and Architect roles

Due to the nature of some projects, applicants must hold SC Clearance or be eligible to obtain it (typically requiring five years' UK residency).

So, if you're a Platform Engineer or DevOps Engineer that is eligible for Security Clearance and looking to work on enterprise-scale cloud platforms using the latest technologies, apply now to be considered