Peel Ports
Platform Engineer (Cloud)
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Platform Engineer (Cloud)
Are you a skilled Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer looking to make a real impact? Join our Group IT team and take ownership of Azure and hybrid cloud services, delivering secure, resilient solutions while helping shape our cloud strategy. This is an exciting opportunity to work on varied projects, solve complex technical challenges, and play a key role in driving continual improvement across our technology environment.
Your Role
In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of infrastructure services across Group IT, delivering and supporting secure, resilient Azure and hybrid cloud solutions that align with business needs. You will act as a hands-on technical specialist, responsible for implementing, maintaining, and continually improving infrastructure throughout its full lifecycle, ensuring high levels of performance, stability, and service availability. You will play a key role in the design, implementation and optimisation of Azure infrastructure, ensuring cloud services are secure, scalable, cost-effective and aligned with best practice. You will contribute to Azure governance, security and operational excellence through the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automation, monitoring, and proactive service improvement initiatives.
With a strong focus on Azure cloud platforms, you will contribute to the development and evolution of the organisation's cloud strategy, using your operational and project delivery experience to help shape future direction. You will also serve as a 4th Line escalation point, providing expert technical support for complex issues, driving root cause analysis, and implementing long-term improvements that enhance service reliability and efficiency.
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What you'll bring
You will have extensive experience operating at a senior technical level within complex IT environments, with a strong track record of delivering cloud and infrastructure projects from inception to completion. You will bring deep expertise across Microsoft technologies, including Azure, Microsoft 365, virtualisation, networking, identity, and hybrid cloud platforms, enabling you to design and support scalable, resilient, and business-aligned solutions. You will have experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code technologies such as PowerShell, Azure Automation, Terraform or Bicep, enabling the delivery of consistent, scalable, and supportable infrastructure solutions.
You will be confident managing live service environments, resolving escalated incidents through root cause analysis, and working closely with third-party suppliers. A strong understanding of change management, governance, risk, and service stability is essential, alongside the ability to integrate technologies into effective end-to-end solutions. Cloud experience is essential, and you will be a project-driven engineer with a proactive and delivery-focused approach.
Who are we?
Already one of the UK’s leading port and logistics companies, we are planning substantial capital investment over the next 5 years to achieve our vision of becoming the UK’s leading port operator. We have ambitious plans to grow and transform the supply chain to benefit our customers. Our investments are decarbonizing our operations, which in turn is helping us work towards our goal of having Net Zero Port Operations by 2040. Much of our success depends on our unrivalled facilities and technology. But in our sector, it comes down to having the right talent to enable our organisation to grow.
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What we can offer you
In addition to a competitive salary, we have a strong track record of developing our people to expand their skills and experience and develop their careers. Valuing and rewarding our workforce is important to us which is why we offer a fantastic range of flexible benefits to choose from, such as:
- 27 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)
- Up to 10% Matched Contribution Pension
- Peel Ports Flexible Benefits including salary sacrifice car scheme, healthcare cash plans, Cycle2Work Scheme, Critical Illness insurance, Gym Membership Scheme, Retail Vouchers, plus more!
- Commitment to learning and personal development – Last year we supported over 50,000 hours of training and personal development!
- We promote good physical and mental health and can provide additional support to colleagues via our Employee Assistance Programme when required
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