Platform Engineer

Job Description Role: Platform EngineerSalary: 65,000-75,000Location: LiverpoolWork pattern: HybridOverviewA leading, fast-growing e-commerce organisation is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to manage and automate hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure within a high-volume environment.This role focuses on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, cost optimisation, and DevOps/SRE best practices, supporting a complex multi-cloud and on-prem estate.Key Responsibilities:Design and manage hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible), ensuring secure, repeatable, production-aligned environmentsManage infrastructure across AWS and on-prem systems, including Windows Server (Domain Controllers, Hyper-V), Linux environments, networking, storage, and virtualisationBuild and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling rapid and reliable deliveryImplement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rolling updates, including zero-downtime database deployments and schema migrationsDevelop and maintain full-stack observability using tools such as Grafana, Loki, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, and CloudWatchImplement monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated incident workflows, including integration with Jira Service ManagementStrengthen cloud security posture using GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, Inspector, IAM, and secrets management, ensuring PCI-DSS complianceEmbed DevSecOps practices, integrating tools such as Snyk into CI/CD pipelinesDrive reliability engineering through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and disaster recovery testingLead capacity planning and performance optimisation for peak trading eventsOptimise cost and resource usage through right-sizing, tagging strategies, and forecastingLeverage AI-driven tooling (AIOps) for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and operational optimisationCollaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and promote DevOps best practicesRequired Experience & Skills:5+ years experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering within hybrid cloud environmentsStrong AWS expertise (EC2, RDS, ECS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, VPC, WAF)Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation required; Terraform/Pulumi desirable)Containerisation and orchestration using Docker, ECS and/or KubernetesStrong Linux administration and networking fundamentals Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and controlled deployment strategiesPython (essential) for automation, cloud integrations (Boto3), and DevSecOps toolingBash/Shell scripting (essential) for Linux automation and CI/CD environmentsExperience with monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, Loki)Strong understanding of cloud security tooling and DevSecOps principlesBenefits:Bonus Scheme Private Medical and Dental CareStrong progression opportunities within a scaling tech team Apply now to find out more detail and be considered for this opportunity!

Created: 2026-05-02