Anson McCade
Senior Platform Engineer
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Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
Manchester – Hybrid
£70,000 + Bonus + Benefits package
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a global technology and engineering consultancy. This position is responsible for delivering and supporting cloud platform engineering solutions across large-scale client environments.
Working within established engineering practices and frameworks, you will help build, operate, and improve cloud-native platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. You will collaborate with engineering teams and clients to deliver high-quality digital products and support continuous improvement across platform services.
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver and support cloud platform engineering solutions across client environments.
- Design services with a reliability mindset, using SLIs, SLOs, and observability practices.
- Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across environments.
- Support incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement of production platforms.
- Contribute to observability solutions including logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
- Support DevSecOps practices across cloud-native platforms at scale.
- Participate in post-incident reviews and drive service improvements.
- Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and speed.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and engineering communities.
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Experience you’ll need
- 5 years strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and core cloud services.
- Hands-on experience in DevSecOps engineering within cloud-native environments.
- Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code across non-production and production environments.
- Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, and reliability.
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or similar.
- Experience supporting production platforms including incident and problem management.
- Exposure to AIOps practices and automation for proactive issue detection and resolution.
- Ability to work in client-facing environments and travel as required.
- Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.
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To hear more about the Senior Platform Engineer role, get in touch with Sophie Higginson at Anson McCade.
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