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Senior Platform Engineer

Anson MccadeManchester, Greater Manchester🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 20 Oct 2026

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

Salary£55k - £65k/yr
SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeTemporary/Casual
Work modeHybrid
LocationManchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom
Posted4 days ago
AWSGrafanaPrometheusTerraformAzureAgileCI/CD

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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