Platform Engineer

Overview

As a DevOps/Platform Engineer in ITV’s Common Platform, you’ll design and operate scalable cloud infrastructure to support Content Supply and Delivery. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams across CS&D and the wider Platform, applying IaC and AWS-native patterns to improve deployment and reliability. You’ll drive upgrades, troubleshoot production issues, and share best practices to uplift engineering across the organisation. This role is hybrid (London/Leeds) with frequent collaboration in London, shaping cloud-native capabilities at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible working options
• Generous holiday allowance
• Annual bonus opportunity
• Competitive pension contribution
• Save as you earn with share purchase option
• Wellbeing and volunteering days

• Implement IaC using Terraform and leverage Common Platform tooling
• Prioritize upgrades with CS&D and assist engineers with deployments and production issues
• Review and approve pull requests related to infrastructure changes
• Maintain and support CS&D infrastructure (e.g., Jenkins) and the Common Platform infrastructure
• Manage Kubernetes upgrades in AWS and design infrastructure for new or redesigned applications
• Share best practices within the Common Platform and contribute improvements and designs

• Secure cloud practices and building high-performance, scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)
• Infrastructure as Code experience (ideally Terraform) and strong version control practices
• Containerisation experience and deploying workloads on Kubernetes
• CI/CD experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, etc.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools
• Experience responding to production incidents related to infrastructure

• Strong communication and constructive feedback skills
• Team-oriented and capable of building relationships across Embedded and Platform teams
• Agile delivery experience
• Terraform
• AWS
• Kubernetes