Platform Engineer

Salary: £30,000 - 58,000 per year

Requirements:

• We are looking for someone who thrives on owning a complex problem from whiteboard to production.
• We value experience breaking down large, ambiguous problems into concrete, deliverable steps.
• You should be comfortable challenging the status quo and looking for ways to improve processes, codebases, and team efficiency.
• You should be able to consider the big picture, including cost-efficiency, scalability, and performance in your designs.
• You should be comfortable mentoring other engineers and participating in wider team leadership.
• You should be comfortable working with ambiguity and novel challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Drive the implementation of complex platform features and projects, taking full ownership from design to production.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of tools and methodologies to make pragmatic design choices.
• Deliver reusable infrastructure modules and CI/CD pipelines to support consistent and secure deployments.
• Proactively monitor, troubleshoot, and continuously improve platform environments using logging, monitoring, and analytics tools.
• Lead and contribute heavily to resolving difficult issues and major incidents.
• Embed secure design principles into everything we build and proactively seek security advice.
• Implement and maintain governance approaches, supporting identity, access management, and vulnerability management.
• Work with delivery teams to support their use of the platform, coach on best practices, and define golden paths and documentation.
• Support and provide guidance to junior team members.
• Stay up to date with new platform capabilities and suggest improvements or new services that align with our strategy.
• Represent the team to the rest of the company and co-author bid documentation for new customer work.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• DevOps
• Support
• LLM
• REST
• Security
• Camunda
• ElasticSearch
• GitLab
• Graph Database
• Kubernetes
• Neo4J
• React

More:

We are a tech company that has grown from a start-up into a community of 180 people, mostly based in Salford, Greater Manchester, with a significant presence in Cheltenham and London. We work in an Agile-first environment that values transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement, with a culture of enablement, focus on quality, and active collaboration. Our work spans projects such as data analytics tools, DevOps platforms, digital forensic data processing, search and reporting systems, workflow tools, AI assurance capability, and data pipelines for evaluating LLM performance. This Platform Engineer role is based in Salford Quays, Manchester, with flexible and hybrid working options, a 37.5-hour week, part-time working available, core hours of 10:00am to 3:00pm, and benefits including performance bonus, company bonus, pension matched 1.5x up to 10.5%, AXA group 1 medical cover, holiday purchase/buy-back scheme, cycle to work scheme, and car benefit scheme. Most teams have agreed in-office days, and you may occasionally travel to local customer sites or other UK locations. We are committed to an inclusive, safe, and supportive recruitment process and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

last updated 36 week of 2026