Platform Engineer

We're partnering with a leading international SaaS technology organisation to recruit an experienced Senior Platform DevOps Engineer to join their growing Platform Engineering team.

This is an exciting opportunity to help shape the cloud platforms and developer experience that support a suite of business-critical SaaS products used by thousands of organisations worldwide.

The Role

As a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in building, evolving, and supporting enterprise-scale cloud platforms. Working closely with Engineering, Security, Architecture, and Product teams, you'll help drive automation, platform standardisation, and cloud-native best practices.

You'll have the opportunity to influence platform strategy, improve developer productivity, and contribute to the evolution of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP).

What You'll Be Doing

Designing and implementing scalable platform engineering solutions

Building and evolving an Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

Developing Golden Paths, reusable templates, and self-service developer capabilities

Defining and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Designing and operating Kubernetes-based cloud platforms

Managing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Improving platform reliability, observability, security, and cost optimisation

Collaborating across Engineering, Security, Operations, and Architecture teams

Driving platform engineering standards and engineering best practices

You’ll ideally have experience with:

8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

Kubernetes and cloud-native technologies

GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins and modern CI/CD pipelines

Terraform and Infrastructure as CodeInternal Developer Platforms (Backstage, Crossplane or similar)

Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and modern observability practices

DevSecOps, policy-as-code, secrets management and compliance automation

Platform governance, DORA metrics and developer productivity initiatives

Strong communication skills and fluent English

Why Apply?

Join a rapidly growing global technology business

Work with modern cloud-native technologies and platform engineering practices

Influence engineering standards across multiple product teams

Help shape the future of developer experience and platform engineering

Collaborate with talented engineers in a highly technical environment

If you're passionate about Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure, Kubernetes, and developer enablement, we'd love to hear from you.

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