Senior Platform Engineer
Summary
A Senior Platform Engineer working onsite in Broadgate, Central London, building and supporting scalable distributed cloud infrastructure. Core technologies include Kubernetes, Azure, Terraform/Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, with a salary of £68,000–£108,000 per year.
Salary: £68,000 - 108,000 per year
Requirements:- At least 4 years experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Cloud Infrastructure roles
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge in production environments
- Hands-on experience with Azure cloud technologies
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
- Experience building and supporting scalable distributed systems
- Strong CI/CD and automation experience
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- A collaborative mindset with strong communication skills
- Experience working within fast-paced engineering teams or technology organisations
- Building and enhancing Internal Developer Platform (IDP) capabilities
- Developing and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
- Managing and optimising Kubernetes environments
- Implementing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Ansible
- Driving GitOps practices and platform standardisation
- Improving platform reliability, security, scalability and cost effectiveness
- Creating golden paths that reduce developer cognitive load and accelerate delivery
- Collaborating with Engineering, Security and SRE teams to improve operational excellence
- Championing modern engineering practices including observability, automation and resilience engineering
- Ansible
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- GitOps
- Support
- Kubernetes
- Security
- Terraform
More:
We are a fast-growing software business investing heavily in our platform engineering capability. We offer a Senior Platform Engineer opportunity in Colchester with a hybrid working arrangement of 3 days in the office, on a permanent basis, with a competitive salary and benefits. You will join us during a period of significant growth and transformation, helping to build the internal developer platform, cloud infrastructure and engineering tooling that support multiple development teams. This role offers the chance to make a genuine impact on how engineering teams build, test and deploy software, within a culture that values ownership, innovation and continuous improvement.
last updated 36 week of 2026