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Platform Engineer
Location: Leeds, UK (3 days in office)
SC Cleared/Eligibility: Required
Job Type: Full-Time
Relevant Experience: 10-15 Years
Key responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable platform solutions. Including monitoring, managing and optimising cloud-based (AWS) resources.
- Feed engineering insight and experience into the wider Strategy and Architecture team to identify opportunities to improve engineering across the whole organisation.
- Document all procedures and policies for maintaining and improving system infrastructure.
- Implement automation tools and frameworks (CI/CD pipelines) for efficient and secure deployment and operations. Whilst also working with development teams to facilitate the deployment and operation of systems.
Skills Required:
Minimum:
- Experience as a Senior Platform Engineer including a solid understanding of software engineering principles and their application.
- Experience of Scripting and pipeline automation (e.g. Jenkins and GitHub Actions).
- Strong understanding of cloud services (AWS) and containerisation technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as CloudFormation or Terraform.
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- Experience of working closely with development and infrastructure teams to quickly understand requirements and implement solutions.
- Adept at leveraging automation to improve development processes and optimise software delivery.
- Ability to cooperate closely with both engineers and product teams — including designers, product managers, and analysts.
- Hands on CloudFormation scripting, troubleshooting and debugging.
- Working knowledge of Chef, scripting and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Python scripting and troubleshooting.
- Experience with Jenkins pipelines (multibranch), deployments, groovy scripting.
- Experience with Linux commands and knowledge of troubleshooting web services.
- Experience with AWS services – EC2, NLB, API Gateway, ASG, etc.
Why Join Us?
- We’re a purpose-driven organisation committed to creating positive impact and championing inclusion.
- You’ll join a culture that encourages innovation, collaboration, and continuous growth.
- We celebrate difference and believe diverse perspectives lead to stronger solutions.
- Even if you don’t meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply — great talent comes from a variety of backgrounds.
- Your lived experience, unique strengths, and personal story matter — they help us design better outcomes for the communities we serve.
- We celebrate diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and believe these differences enable us to create meaningful impact.
- We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to fairness and inclusion for all, regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital or partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related conditions, or any other protected characteristic.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments or additional support during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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AWS
CloudFormation
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
Python
Chef
Linux
CI/CD
Infrastructure as Code
Software Engineering Principles
Scripting
Automation
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