Senor Platform Engineer

Location: Glasgow – Hybrid, 3 days per week

Contract: 6 months initially

Rate: Inside IR35

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a consulting client on an initial 6-month contract, working as part of a team responsible for improving the security, reliability and automation of large-scale infrastructure platforms.

This is a hands on engineering role, combining Linux, Python, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, testing and security remediation. You’ll work across multiple infrastructure and automation codebases, identifying and resolving vulnerabilities while ensuring changes are thoroughly tested and safe to deploy into complex production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Work across infrastructure and automation codebases to identify and remediate security vulnerabilities.
• Design, implement and validate secure, stable and maintainable code changes.
• Integrate vendor, open-source and internally developed technologies into enterprise infrastructure platforms.
• Develop and maintain automation using Python and related technologies.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and release validation processes.
• Develop practical test plans and validation procedures for security, infrastructure and configuration changes.
• Use lab and pre-production environments to safely test and validate complex technical changes before production deployment.
• Work closely with engineering, operations, security and application teams to assess impact and drive remediation through to completion.
• Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, technical planning and documentation.
• Contribute to improvements across platform security, reliability, automation and engineering practices.

About You

You’ll be an experienced infrastructure engineer with strong development and automation skills, comfortable working across complex enterprise environments.

We’re particularly interested in experience across:

• Strong Linux engineering, including configuration, troubleshooting, diagnostics and operational support.
• Strong Python development skills and the ability to produce maintainable, production-quality code.
• CI/CD, automated testing frameworks and release automation.
• Automated and manual testing methodologies.
• Developing test plans, validation procedures and deployment strategies for complex technical changes.
• Supporting large-scale production environments with a strong understanding of operational risk.
• Security principles, vulnerability remediation, secure coding and system hardening.
• Distributed systems and the challenges involved in safely changing, testing and operating them.
• Troubleshooting across operating systems, infrastructure services, networking, automation platforms and application integrations.

You’ll also need to be comfortable taking ownership of complex technical issues, working independently and collaborating with a range of technical teams. Strong communication skills are important, particularly the ability to clearly explain technical risks, options and recommendations.

The Opportunity

This is a great opportunity for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer / Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer with strong Python and security experience to work on complex enterprise infrastructure within a consulting environment.

You’ll be involved in meaningful engineering work spanning infrastructure integration, security remediation, automation, testing and production engineering, with plenty of scope to influence how changes are developed, validated and deployed.

6-month initial contract | Inside IR35 | Glasgow | Hybrid – 3 days per week