Platform Engineer - #2078084

Hiring: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Leeds, UK (Hybrid – 3 days onsite)

Job Type: Full-Time

SC Clearance: Active SC

We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team and play a key role in building and optimising scalable cloud-based platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions
• Monitor, manage, and optimise cloud infrastructure on AWS
• Contribute to engineering strategy and collaborate with Architecture teams
• Document processes, procedures, and infrastructure improvements
• Implement and enhance CI/CD pipelines for secure and efficient deployments
• Work closely with development teams to support system deployment and operations

Required Skills:

Minimum:

• Strong experience as a Senior Platform Engineer
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles
• Hands-on experience with scripting and pipeline automation (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Strong AWS cloud expertise
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation)

Essential:

• Experience collaborating with development and infrastructure teams
• Strong focus on automation and improving delivery pipelines
• Hands-on experience with CloudFormation (scripting & troubleshooting)
• Working knowledge of Chef
• Proficiency in Python scripting
• Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch, Groovy scripting)
• Strong Linux command-line skills and troubleshooting web services
• Experience with AWS services such as EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG