Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (AWS / OpenShift)

Location: London, Bristol, or Edinburgh (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)

Salary: £70,000 – £85,000 DOE + bonus + 15% pension

Join a well-established engineering team responsible for one of the most critical container platforms in the organisation - Red Hat OpenShift running on AWS.

You’ll work within a collaborative team of five Platform Engineers, supporting and evolving a mature container platform that hosts a range of business-critical customer-facing services. This isn’t greenfield, it’s a technically rich, high-impact environment where you’ll help refine, automate, and modernise an already well-run platform to make it as seamless as possible for developers to consume.

• Delivering and continuously improving OpenShift platforms on AWS
• Automating infrastructure delivery using Terraform and GitOps principles
• Enhancing reliability, performance, and security of the platform
• Supporting onboarding of new workloads and services
• Working on projects to make the platform more self-healing and developer-friendly
• Collaborating closely with DevEx teams and other internal engineering squads

You’ll bring:

• 3+ years’ experience in platform or infrastructure engineering
• 2+ years with container platforms (OpenShift or Kubernetes)
• Strong AWS knowledge and Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform)
• Good understanding of Linux, scripting (Python / Bash), and automation
• Familiarity with CI/CD, change and release processes, and agile environments
• An understanding of regulated environments, as well as governance and security best practices

Whether you come from an operations or development background, you’ll bring an engineering mindset and a structured, disciplined approach to delivery.

What's in it for you?

• A technically mature environment, no firefighting or chaos, just smart engineering
• Opportunity to work on interesting automation and platform-as-a-product initiatives
• A collaborative, experienced team with great mentorship opportunities
• 15% pension , annual bonus, flexible hybrid working, and a genuine focus on employee wellbeing