Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

• Location: Manchester (Hybrid – 2-3 days onsite per week, with occasional UK client travel)
• Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
• Security Clearance: Must be eligible for BPSS and SC Security Clearance (5 years' continuous UK residency required)

The Opportunity

Join a leading global technology and consulting organisation, delivering modern cloud platforms and engineering solutions for some of the world's largest organisations.

As part of a specialist engineering team, you'll work on complex digital transformation programmes, helping clients build, scale and operate secure, reliable cloud-native platforms. You'll combine hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and driving best practices across DevSecOps, automation and platform reliability.

The Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design, build and support scalable cloud platforms while helping teams adopt modern engineering practices across development, security and operations.

You'll work across a variety of client environments, applying your expertise in cloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, cloud-native platforms across AWS and/or Azure environments.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Support DevSecOps practices, automation and continuous delivery pipelines.
• Apply SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, resilience engineering and reliability improvements.
• Implement observability solutions including monitoring, dashboards, alerting and root-cause analysis.
• Support production environments through incident management, problem management and continuous improvement.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and automation.
• Act as a technical escalation point and mentor junior engineers.
• Influence engineering standards and best practices across teams.

What We're Looking For

We're looking for experienced Platform Engineers with a strong background in cloud engineering and DevSecOps.

You'll ideally have experience with:

• Strong hands-on experience building and supporting cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
• Proven experience with DevSecOps engineering and cloud-native technologies.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
• Practical understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, resilience and operational excellence.
• Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or similar tools.
• Experience supporting production systems, including incident and problem management.
• Understanding of automation and AIOps practices.
• Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What's on Offer?

• £60,000 - £72,000 salary
• Performance bonus and comprehensive benefits package
• Hybrid working model (2-3 days onsite in Manchester)
• Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation programmes
• Access to global engineering communities and technical specialists
• Extensive training and professional development opportunities
• 25 days annual leave plus additional volunteering days
• Private medical insurance and wider benefits

Please note: Due to the nature of client engagements, candidates must be willing to undergo BPSS and SC Security Clearance and travel occasionally to client sites across the UK.