Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Hybrid manchester

Job Title: Senior Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: Manchester (Hybrid - 1 day per week in office)
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 + Benefits
Eligibility: UK-based only, full right to work required (no visa sponsorship)

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to join our growing tech team. You'll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining our enterprise cloud platforms, ensuring they are reliable, secure, and highly available. This is a hands-on role where you'll work closely with multiple teams to drive automation, modernisation, and performance improvements across our infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and maintain cloud environments in Azure and GCP

Build internal platforms to streamline development and deployment

Automate provisioning, configuration, scaling, and operational tasks

Contribute to cloud migration and platform modernisation initiatives

Implement best practices across cloud architecture, DevOps, and automation

Collaborate with cross-functional teams on greenfield projects

Investigate incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and introduce preventative measures

Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers

Monitor platform performance, security, and costs

Essential Skills & Experience

3+ years in a Senior Platform, Cloud, or DevOps Engineer role

Strong experience with Azure and GCP environments

Hands-on with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM Templates, etc.)

Skilled in CI/CD pipelines and automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)

Strong scripting experience (Python, Shell, Perl, etc.)

Familiarity with enterprise IT operations, networking fundamentals, and security

Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog)

Agile delivery experience and strong stakeholder communication

Desirable Skills

Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline

Exposure to Unix/Solaris environments and Oracle systems

Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)

Knowledge of hybrid or multi-cloud infrastructure strategies

Awareness of DevSecOps principles and compliance frameworks

Please apply for immediate interview slots