Senior Platform Engineer | Colchester

Overview

Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and evolve the internal developer platform and cloud infrastructure, enabling product teams to deliver high-quality software at scale. You will drive automation, self-service tooling, and cloud-native best practices across a modern platform engineering function. You’ll shape CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes environments, and IaC implementations while advancing GitOps, observability, and reliability. This role offers impact in a growth-minded software business undergoing transformation, with collaboration across Engineering, Security, and SRE teams.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive salary
• hybrid work arrangement (Colchester, 3 days in office)
• growth-oriented culture
• opportunity to influence platform strategy
• specialist tooling and modern tech stack
• benefits suitable to a fast-growing software business

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance the Internal Developer Platform (IDP) capabilities
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Manage and optimise Kubernetes environments in production
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
• Drive GitOps practices and platform standardisation
• Improve platform reliability, security, scalability and cost effectiveness
• Create golden paths to reduce developer cognitive load and accelerate delivery
• Collaborate with Engineering, Security and SRE to improve operational excellence
• Champion modern engineering practices including observability, automation and resilience engineering

Key requirements

• 4+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure
• Strong production Kubernetes experience
• Hands-on Azure cloud technologies experience
• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
• Experience building and supporting scalable distributed systems
• Strong CI/CD and automation experience
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Collaborative mindset with strong communication skills
• Experience in fast-paced engineering environments

• collaborative mindset
• strong communication
• problem-solving
• Kubernetes
• Azure cloud technologies
• Terraform

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