Why this role stands out
This hybrid role offers an exciting opportunity to design and support complex, enterprise-scale cloud platforms for a leading global consultancy, with a competitive salary and bonus. You will thrive if you are a skilled platform engineer passionate about DevSecOps, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud-native practices, eager to contribute to impactful projects and grow your career. Apply now to join a dynamic team and shape the future of cloud technology.
Quick overview
Job description
Senior Platform Engineer
Manchester
£55,000 - £65,000 + Bonus
I'm currently supporting a leading global consultancy as they continue to grow their high-performing Engineering team. This is an opportunity to join a business delivering complex, large-scale cloud platforms for some of the UK's biggest organisations, working across a wide range of industries and solving genuine engineering challenges.
This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll help build, improve and support cloud-native platforms, working alongside talented engineers in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning.
What you'll be doing:
- Designing, building and supporting scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure
- Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across production and non-production environments
- Driving DevSecOps best practice and improving engineering standards across delivery teams
- Implementing SRE principles including observability, monitoring, SLIs/SLOs and platform reliability
- Supporting production environments, incident management and continuous service improvements
- Mentoring engineers and acting as a technical leader within agile delivery teams
- Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and software quality
What they're looking for:
- Strong experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
- Hands-on DevSecOps engineering experience within enterprise environments
- Proven Terraform experience building Infrastructure as Code
- Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus or similar
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native engineering practices
- Experience supporting live production platforms
- Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring other engineers
What's on offer:
- Salary of £55,000 - £65,000
- Excellent bonus and benefits package
- Exposure to exciting, enterprise-scale transformation programmes
- Ongoing training, certifications and clear career progression
- Opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices
- Hybrid working with Manchester as your base location
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