Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (Senior Level)

We are representing a confidential energy-tech organization with offices in Bristol and London. Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team, working in a hybrid arrangement (3 days per week in office). This role requires an existing right to work in the UK; visa sponsorship is not available at this time.

Responsibilities

You will play a pivotal role in evolving and elevating an internal developer platform to empower software teams. Beyond day-to-day platform engineering, you'll take ownership of technical decisions, drive best practices across teams, eliminate complex infrastructure toil, reinforce enterprise security safeguards, and optimize cloud operations at scale.

• Engineering Foundations: Design and build a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform that sets the standard for seamless software development and operations.
• Automation & Tooling: Drive self-service tooling and abstractions to hide platform complexity from developers, drastically improving developer experience and team velocity.
• Infrastructure as Code: Lead the use of Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to automate provisioning and champion GitOps best practices across all cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring, logging, and tracing foundations in close collaboration with the wider Site Reliability Engineering function.
• Security & Reliability: Embed automated security controls, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and solve complex, systemic issues.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor engineers in the team, foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders to coordinate technical upgrades, and hold service providers accountable.

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production applications at scale
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with a passion for mentoring others
• Deep expertise with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure
• Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters
• A deep understanding of distributed systems and resiliency patterns
• Proven expertise with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and Infrastructure as Code technologies

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will conduct an initial screening to understand your background and ensure alignment with the role requirements. Once we confirm you're a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our recruiting team to ensure a smooth and professional process.

Pay

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