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Senior Platform Engineer

Cardiff
3 weeks ago
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Senior Platform Engineer
📍 Cardiff / Hybrid
💰 Up to £80,000 + annual share scheme + excellent benefits

What You'll Do:

You'll help drive platform engineering maturity by delivering cloud-native infrastructure, scalable CI/CD tooling, and shared services that empower cross-functional teams. Your focus will be on enhancing observability, automating operational processes, and ensuring that systems are well-documented and supportable.

Working with tools such as GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps, you'll create efficient, reliable environments while promoting a culture of standardisation and proactive knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

What You'll Bring:

Proven experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes (GKE)
Hands-on expertise deploying and managing workloads using Helm charts
Strong skills in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code delivery
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps
Solid grasp of Git version control and GitOps principles
Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Operations Suite
Scripting ability with tools like Bash or Python
Understanding of shared service models, access control, and platform support processes
Desirable: experience with ArgoCD and service mesh platforms such as AnthosWhy You Should Apply:

You'll join a people-first team that encourages innovation, supports career development, and values shared knowledge. With flexible working, up to 38 days holiday and free shares each year, this is an opportunity to build scalable infrastructure while shaping the future of a collaborative platform engineering culture.

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Contact Lewis Allen to find out more.
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