Senior Platform Engineer

In this role you will shape and sustain the core platform that powers engineering delivery, focusing on security, reliability, and scale. You will set standards, drive platform strategy, and guide cross-functional teams through architectural decisions. The position blends hands-on design with technical leadership across multiple sites and a hybrid setup. You will enable fast, secure, and repeatable delivery while evolving our cloud-native platform.

• Holiday purchase scheme
• On-site gym and corporate gym membership
• Private medical insurance
• Contributory pension scheme
• Electric Car Scheme
• Life assurance (3x salary) and optional additional cover

• Own and evolve the core platform infrastructure (e.g., AKS clusters, networking, API gateways) for scalability and reliability
• Define and enforce platform standards, guardrails, and best practices (security, cost, reliability, performance)
• Drive platform strategy and roadmap with engineering leadership to align with business goals
• Partner with product and engineering teams to identify pain points and prioritise high-impact improvements
• Lead architecture discussions on cloud-native patterns, distributed systems, and platform capabilities
• Design and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows for safe, fast delivery
• Champion DevSecOps by embedding security in the software delivery lifecycle
• Establish observability, monitoring, and incident response, including vulnerability management
• Mentor engineers and promote knowledge sharing and technical leadership
• Evaluate and introduce new tools and approaches to keep the platform modern and efficient

• Strong experience in platform engineering, SRE, or DevOps in a distributed cloud environment
• Deep expertise in Kubernetes and containerised workloads, ideally with AKS
• Proven experience designing and operating scalable, highly available cloud infrastructure
• Strong background in CI/CD, automation, and GitOps at scale
• Solid understanding of cloud networking, identity, and security principles (container and Kubernetes security)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and configuration management
• Strong Linux systems administration knowledge
• Pragmatic, risk-based decision-making balancing business priorities with technical excellence
• Experience shaping standards, influencing teams, and driving platform adoption
• Excellent communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Excellent communication skills
• Collaborative mindset
• Strategic thinking
• Kubernetes (AKS preferred)
• CI/CD and GitOps tooling
• Infrastructure as code