Anson McCade
Senior Platform Engineer
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Senior Platform Engineer
Location: Manchester (Hybrid – 2-3 days onsite per week, with occasional UK client travel)
Salary: £60,000 - £75,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Security Clearance: Must be eligible for BPSS and SC Security Clearance (5 years' continuous UK residency required)
The Opportunity
Join a leading global technology and consulting organisation, delivering modern cloud platforms and engineering solutions for some of the world's largest organisations.
As part of a specialist engineering team, you'll work on complex digital transformation programmes, helping clients build, scale and operate secure, reliable cloud-native platforms. You'll combine hands-on engineering expertise with technical leadership, mentoring engineers and driving best practices across DevSecOps, automation and platform reliability.
The Role
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design, build and support scalable cloud platforms while helping teams adopt modern engineering practices across development, security and operations.
You'll work across a variety of client environments, applying your expertise in cloud engineering, Infrastructure as Code, automation and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE).
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Responsibilities
- Design, build and maintain secure, cloud-native platforms across AWS and/or Azure environments.
- Develop and manage Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
- Support DevSecOps practices, automation and continuous delivery pipelines.
- Apply SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, resilience engineering and reliability improvements.
- Implement observability solutions including monitoring, dashboards, alerting and root-cause analysis.
- Support production environments through incident management, problem management and continuous improvement.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and automation.
- Act as a technical escalation point and mentor junior engineers.
- Influence engineering standards and best practices across teams.
What We're Looking For
We're looking for experienced Platform Engineers with a strong background in cloud engineering and DevSecOps.
You'll ideally have experience with:
- Strong hands-on experience building and supporting cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
- Proven experience with DevSecOps engineering and cloud-native technologies.
- Strong Infrastructure as Code experience, particularly Terraform.
- Practical understanding of SRE principles, including reliability, resilience and operational excellence.
- Experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or similar tools.
- Experience supporting production systems, including incident and problem management.
- Understanding of automation and AIOps practices.
- Ability to mentor engineers and provide technical leadership.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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What's on Offer?
- £60,000 - £72,000 salary
- Performance bonus and comprehensive benefits package
- Hybrid working model (2-3 days onsite in Manchester)
- Opportunity to work on large-scale cloud transformation programmes
- Access to global engineering communities and technical specialists
- Extensive training and professional development opportunities
- 25 days annual leave plus additional volunteering days
- Private medical insurance and wider benefits
Please note: Due to the nature of client engagements, candidates must be willing to undergo BPSS and SC Security Clearance and travel occasionally to client sites across the UK.
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