Anson McCade
Platform Engineer
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Platform Engineer
Platform Engineer – Scotland
AWS | Kubernetes | Terraform | CI/CD | SRE | DevOps
📍 Glasgow or Edinburgh
💷 Up to £66,000
🔐 BPSS & SC clearances required for eligibility
A leading global technology and consulting organisation is hiring Platform Engineers to join a major Software & Platform Engineering team in Scotland. You'll work across modern cloud platforms, DevOps tooling, Kubernetes, and production-grade infrastructure.
About the Role
This is a hands-on Platform Engineering role for someone passionate about:
- Building reliable cloud platforms
- Improving automation
- Supporting production environments
- Collaborating closely with agile delivery teams
You’ll join a diverse engineering community exceeding 1,000+ professionals, delivering digital products and platforms for clients across scale-ups, blue-chip organisations, and public sector environments.
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Responsibilities
- Building and supporting cloud platforms using AWS
- Working with Kubernetes across build, deployment, and production operations
- Provisioning and managing infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code
- Building and improving CI/CD pipelines & automation
- Supporting Agile/DevOps teams using Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket
- Applying SRE principles including:
- Reliability
- SLIs/SLOs
- Logging
- Metrics
- Distributed tracing
- Supporting incident response and post-incident improvements
- Using AI-assisted engineering tools (like GitHub Copilot or GitLab Duo) responsibly to enhance delivery quality and speed
Core Technologies
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- AWS CDK
- CI/CD tooling
- Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket
- Logging, metrics, and distributed tracing tools
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Requirements
- Strong AWS cloud platform experience
- Hands-on production Kubernetes experience
- Infrastructure as Code proficiency (ideally with AWS CDK & Terraform)
- CI/CD & DevOps best practice experience
- Reliability-focused mindset for observability, incident response, and production support
- Strong communication skills with comfort in client-facing agile environments
Important Note: This role is not a generic DevOps support role—ideal for a hands-on Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Cloud Engineer with:
✅ Real production platform experience ✅ Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) capability ✅ A genuine reliability mindset & DevOps ethos
Interested? Get in touch—I’d be happy to discuss this opportunity further!
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