Platform Engineer

Company: Erin Associates Ltd
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Location: Leicester
Job Description:

DevOps Platform Engineer – Leicester, East Midlands, Leicestershire

We’re looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to build and maintain the internal platform that enables development teams to deliver software quickly, securely and reliably across cloud and on-premises environments.

THe Platform Engineer will work across Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and security, while helping create self-service tools and automation that make developers’ lives easier.

Key skills for this Platform Engineer:

  • Strong production experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Linux
  • AWS or another major cloud platform
  • Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Argo CD
  • CI/CD using GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar
  • Monitoring and observability, ideally OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
  • Networking, security, secrets management and disaster recovery
  • Scripting/programming with Go, Python or Bash
  • Experience with on-premises/bare-metal environments
  • Experience with OpenShift, K3s, Docker Swarm, Cilium/eBPF, Backstage or AI-assisted engineering tools would be advantageous.

This is a great opportunity for a Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer to help shape a modern platform and influence how engineering teams build, deploy and operate software.

Keywords; DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Python, AWS, Terraform – Leicester, East Midlands, Loughborough, Coalville, Leicestershire, Corby

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Posted: October 13th, 2026