Senior Cloud Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Manchester – Hybrid

£70,000 + Bonus + Benefits package

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a global technology and engineering consultancy. This position is responsible for delivering and supporting cloud platform engineering solutions across large-scale client environments.

Working within established engineering practices and frameworks, you will help build, operate, and improve cloud-native platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. You will collaborate with engineering teams and clients to deliver high-quality digital products and support continuous improvement across platform services.

Key Responsibilities as Senior Platform Engineer

• Deliver and support cloud platform engineering solutions across client environments.
• Design services with a reliability mindset, using SLIs, SLOs, and observability practices.
• Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across environments.
• Support incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement of production platforms.
• Contribute to observability solutions including logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
• Support DevSecOps practices across cloud-native platforms at scale.
• Participate in post-incident reviews and drive service improvements.
• Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and speed.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and engineering communities.

Experience you’ll need as a Senior Platform Engineer

• 5 years strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and core cloud services.
• Hands-on experience in DevSecOps engineering within cloud-native environments.
• Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code across non-production and production environments.
• Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, and reliability.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or similar.
• Experience supporting production platforms including incident and problem management.
• Exposure to AIOps practices and automation for proactive issue detection and resolution.
• Ability to work in client-facing environments and travel as required.
• Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.

To hear more about the Senior Platform Engineer role, get in touch with Sophie Higginson at Anson McCade.

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