Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Manchester

£55,000 - £75,000 + Bonus

We're currently supporting a leading global consultancy as they continue to grow their high-performing Engineering team. This is an opportunity to join a business delivering complex, large-scale cloud platforms for some of the UK's biggest organisations, working across a wide range of industries and solving genuine engineering challenges.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll act as a technical lead, helping to shape the technical direction while still being heavily involved in building, improving and supporting cloud-native platforms. You'll work closely with talented engineers, providing technical guidance, driving best practices and helping the team deliver high-quality solutions in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing, building and supporting scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across production and non-production environments
• Driving DevSecOps best practice and improving engineering standards across delivery teams
• Implementing SRE principles including observability, monitoring, SLIs/SLOs and platform reliability
• Supporting production environments, incident management and continuous service improvements
• Mentoring engineers and acting as a technical leader within agile delivery teams
• Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and software quality

What they're looking for:

• Strong experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Hands-on DevSecOps engineering experience within enterprise environments
• Proven Terraform experience building Infrastructure as Code
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus or similar
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native engineering practices
• Experience supporting live production platforms
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring other engineers

What's on offer:

• Salary of £55,000 - £75,000
• Excellent bonus and benefits package
• Exposure to exciting, enterprise-scale transformation programmes
• Ongoing training, certifications and clear career progression
• Opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices
• Hybrid working with Manchester as your base location