IT & Software

Senior Platform Engineer

Civica

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

Senior Platform Engineer at Civica helps scale and stabilize software delivery across product teams by translating platform standards into practical improvements. You focus on development workflows, CI/CD, observability, and production readiness to enable safer, faster delivery. You collaborate closely with engineering, coaching teams to adopt common tooling and practices, building trust in the platform. This role supports Civica’s mission to improve public services by reducing friction in software delivery for citizens and communities. You will work in a collaborative, impact-focused environment that values engineering enablement and cross-team partnership.

Pay / Benefits
  • 25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays – plus the option to buy up to 10 extra days
  • Pension Contributions – 5% employer match
  • Income Protection – up to 75% salary
  • Life Assurance – 4x salary
  • Critical Illness Cover – 25,000 lump sum
  • Private Medical Insurance – fast access to private healthcare
Responsibilities
  • Understand current delivery practices with product engineering teams and identify practical improvement opportunities
  • Help teams adopt Platform Enablement standards
  • Improve development workflows, build pipelines, automated checks, release processes, and production readiness
  • Provide hands-on engineering guidance to unblock teams and sustain progress
  • Translate central platform guidance into context-specific actions for each product team
  • Promote safe, reliable, and consistent software delivery across Civica
  • Capture feedback from product teams and turn friction points into signals for platform improvement
Key requirements
  • Experience working with product engineering teams to assess delivery practices
  • Ability to translate platform guidance into actionable steps
  • Hands-on engineering guidance to remove blockers
  • Knowledge of CI/CD and modern branching strategies
  • Understanding of observability, monitoring, and production readiness
  • Experience with secure software delivery and shift-left controls
  • Familiarity with infrastructure, environment, and configuration management
  • Stakeholder engagement and influencing without direct authority
  • collaborative mindset
  • coaching and mentoring
  • stakeholder engagement
  • CI/CD
  • automated checks and quality gates
  • trunk-based development and modern branching strategies

Reference: WJ-747_30150654

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