DevOps Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer / Team Lead

Location: Manchester (Hybrid)

Salary: Up to £70,000 + package

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering function, helping to design, build, and support cloud-native platforms used by large-scale organisations across a variety of industries. This is a hands-on technical leadership role where you'll combine deep engineering expertise with mentoring, coaching, and technical decision-making responsibilities.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading and mentoring a team of Platform and DevOps Engineers.
• Designing, building, and maintaining scalable cloud-native platforms with a strong focus on AWS.
• Driving Infrastructure as Code adoption using Terraform across development and production environments.
• Promoting DevSecOps best practices and helping teams deliver secure, reliable solutions at scale.
• Implementing and improving observability through monitoring, alerting, logging, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including SLIs, SLOs, resilience, and operational excellence.
• Supporting production environments, incident management, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvement.
• Acting as a technical escalation point and helping define engineering standards and best practices.
• Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and similar technologies to improve development efficiency, quality, testing, documentation, and delivery outcomes.
• Collaborating with stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver high-quality platform solutions that create measurable business value.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years' commercial experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or Azure cloud services.
• Proven expertise with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building and supporting cloud-native platforms in production environments.
• Strong DevSecOps background and understanding of modern CI/CD practices.
• Knowledge of SRE principles, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Exposure to AIOps, automation, and proactive incident reduction strategies.
• Previous experience mentoring engineers or leading technical teams.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and guide engineering decisions.
• A passion for continuous learning, innovation, and modern engineering practices.

If you're a Senior Platform Engineer who thrives on technical leadership, cloud innovation, and using AI to deliver smarter engineering outcomes, apply today.