Platform Engineer

Salary: £45,000 - 85,000 per year

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services, including compute, networking, storage, identity, security, monitoring, and platform services.
• Proven experience delivering cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform and Terragrunt, with a strong understanding of modular, reusable, and policy-driven implementation patterns.
• Experience building reusable Azure platform templates, golden paths, or engineering patterns for repeatable platform adoption.
• Good understanding of DevOps and DevSecOps practices, including CI/CD, source control, automated testing, release management, security controls, and environment governance.
• Experience operating Azure cloud-native services using observability, alerting, logging, performance monitoring, service reliability, and incident response practices.
• Practical knowledge of cloud cost optimisation and FinOps principles, including cost visibility, tagging, right-sizing, and efficient consumption patterns.
• Ability to work effectively as an embedded third-party engineering consultant in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to produce high-quality documentation.
• 10+ years of experience.

Responsibilities:

• Provide hands-on engineering support to design, build, and optimise cloud platform capabilities, ensuring delivered components are secure, scalable, resilient, and aligned to our engineering standards.
• Develop and maintain production-ready Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Terragrunt, and Azure-native tooling, enabling repeatable, automated, and governed cloud provisioning.
• Build and refine reusable Azure platform templates and engineering patterns that can be adopted consistently across workloads and environments.
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, environment management, and release practices for key platform services.
• Embed observability, monitoring, resilience, security, and FinOps practices into platform components to improve reliability, cost transparency, and operational readiness.
• Actively contribute to the engineering backlog, sprint planning, refinement, delivery execution, reviews, and technical demos in line with agreed priorities.
• Coach and pair with internal engineers through day-to-day co-delivery, documentation, and knowledge transfer, supporting increased internal capability to operate and extend the platform.
• Provide engineering input to architecture, security, and operations discussions while recognising that architectural ownership, design authority, and governance decisions remain with the relevant governance forums.
• Deliver production-ready Infrastructure as Code assets and reusable Azure platform templates.
• Deliver CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for agreed platform services.
• Embed observability, monitoring, resilience, and FinOps integrations into delivered components.
• Produce technical documentation, engineering patterns, and knowledge-transfer materials to support internal engineering adoption.
• Provide regular progress input to sprint reviews, weekly checkpoints, and prioritisation discussions.

Technologies:

• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• Embedded
• Support
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are hiring for an Azure Platform Engineering Consultant to join our Newbury office on a hybrid basis in a full-time permanent role. This is a hands-on engineering position supporting our cloud initiative for Telco-as-a-Service on Azure, with a focus on secure, scalable, and cost-effective platform delivery. You will work embedded within our engineering teams to co-deliver reusable, production-ready platform components while helping upskill our internal engineers through coaching, documentation, and knowledge transfer. The package includes compensation of £65K to £85K, and the role requires 10+ years of experience.

last updated 33 week of 2026