Platform Engineer

Posted 27 February 2025
Salary £70000.00 - £75000.00 per annum
LocationBirmingham
Job type Permanent
Discipline Cloud and DevOps
ReferenceBBBH210896_1740667632

Job description

Platform Engineer


Salary: £70,000 - £75,000

Location: Birmingham - Hybrid working, the client would be looking for someone to go onto site 1-2 times a month



About the Role

  • You will create scalable, reliable, and self-service platforms that enable developers to efficiently build and deploy applications.
  • You will provide standardised tooling and environments that facilitate consistency and efficiency across development teams.
  • You will enable smooth, reliable infrastructure management through automation, reducing manual tasks and errors.
  • You will ensure that the platform's stable, reliable, and optimised for performance, with proactive monitoring and incident management
  • You will embed security and compliance within the platform to protect data and meet regulatory requirements.


Skills and experience required:

  • You will have extensive experience with tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes
  • You will have in depth knowledge of cloud providers (Azure, AWS, Google Cloud)
  • Experience with cloud-native services such as compute, storage, networking, and managed Kubernetes services.
  • You will have proficiency in .net and/or python scripting languages, AI integration (Github Copilot) and knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, ADO Pipelines, Octopus Deploy)
  • Experience with tools including Prometheus, Grafana and Azure Monitor