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Senior Cloud Engineer

Anson MccadeManchester, Greater Manchester🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 7 Jul 2026

Why this role stands out

This hybrid Senior Cloud Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to build and optimize cloud-native platforms for a global technology leader, with a competitive salary of £70,000 plus bonus and benefits. You'll thrive here if you're a proactive engineer with a passion for reliability, Infrastructure as Code, and mentoring others, eager to contribute to cutting-edge digital products in a collaborative environment. Don't miss out on this chance to advance your career in cloud engineering!

Quick overview

Salary£70k/yr
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationManchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Posted3 months ago
AWSTerraformAzure

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer

Manchester Hybrid

£70,000 + Bonus + Benefits package

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a global technology and engineering consultancy. This position is responsible for delivering and supporting cloud platform engineering solutions across large-scale client environments.

Working within established engineering practices and frameworks, you will help build, operate, and improve cloud-native platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. You will collaborate with engineering teams and clients to deliver high-quality digital products and support continuous improvement across platform services.

Key Responsibilities as Senior Platform Engineer

  • Deliver and support cloud platform engineering solutions across client environments.
  • Design services with a reliability mindset, using SLIs, SLOs, and observability practices.
  • Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across environments.
  • Support incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement of production platforms.
  • Contribute to observability solutions including logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
  • Support DevSecOps practices across cloud-native platforms at scale.
  • Participate in post-incident reviews and drive service improvements.
  • Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and speed.
  • Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and engineering communities.

Experience youll need as a Senior Platform Engineer

  • 5 years strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and core cloud services.
  • Hands-on experience in DevSecOps engineering within cloud-native environments.
  • Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code across non-production and production environments.
  • Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, and reliability.
  • Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or similar.
  • Experience supporting production platforms including incident and problem management.
  • Exposure to AIOps practices and automation for proactive issue detection and resolution.
  • Ability to work in client-facing environments and travel as required.
  • Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.

To hear more about the Senior Platform Engineer role, get in touch with Sophie Higginson at Anson McCade.

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