Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer

Salary: £65,000-£75,000

Location: Liverpool

Work pattern: Hybrid

Overview

A 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 environments

• Manage infrastructure across AWS and on-prem systems, including Windows Server (Domain Controllers, Hyper-V), Linux environments, networking, storage, and virtualisation

• Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling rapid and reliable delivery

• Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rolling updates, including zero-downtime database deployments and schema migrations

• Develop and maintain full-stack observability using tools such as Grafana, Loki, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, and CloudWatch

• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated incident workflows, including integration with Jira Service Management

• Strengthen cloud security posture using GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, Inspector, IAM, and secrets management, ensuring PCI-DSS compliance

• Embed DevSecOps practices, integrating tools such as Snyk into CI/CD pipelines

• Drive reliability engineering through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and disaster recovery testing

• Lead capacity planning and performance optimisation for peak trading events

• Optimise cost and resource usage through right-sizing, tagging strategies, and forecasting

• Leverage AI-driven tooling (AIOps) for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and operational optimisation

• Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and promote DevOps best practices

Required Experience & Skills:

• 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering within hybrid cloud environments

• Strong 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 Kubernetes

• Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals

• Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and controlled deployment strategies

• Python (essential) for automation, cloud integrations (Boto3), and DevSecOps tooling

• Bash/Shell scripting (essential) for Linux automation and CI/CD environments

• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, Loki)

• Strong understanding of cloud security tooling and DevSecOps principles

Benefits:

• Bonus Scheme
• Private Medical and Dental Care
• Strong progression opportunities within a scaling tech team

Apply now to find out more detail and be considered for this opportunity!