Platform Engineer

Our Client:

An established and globally recognised organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to take a leading role in shaping and governing the cloud based data platforms that power footballing insight and decision making. This is a fully onsite position, working closely with high performance teams in a fast moving, elite environment.

The Role:

You'll be responsible for designing, provisioning and managing the club's football data cloud estate, ensuring platforms are secure, scalable and built to support advanced analytics. This role blends deep Azure expertise with strong governance, automation and platform engineering principles.

Key Responsibilities:

Own the architecture, provisioning and life cycle management of the football data cloud estate

Lead Azure cloud infrastructure and network design, ensuring security, scalability and cost efficiency

Manage identity, authentication and access governance using Microsoft Entra

Define and promote CI/CD best practices and deployment automation

Identify platform risks, bottlenecks and improvement opportunities

Produce clear documentation and architectural guidance for engineering teams

What You'll Bring:

Extensive hands on experience designing and operating production Azure platforms

Strong Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform preferred)

Proven ownership of cloud provisioning, governance and life cycle management

Expertise in identity and access management

Solid understanding of Docker, Kubernetes and container orchestration

Experience with Databricks and modern cloud based data platforms

Advanced CI/CD and Git based workflow knowledge

Strong monitoring experience (Grafana, Elastic, Datadog)

A mindset focused on continuous improvement

Desirable:

Experience with relational databases (eg, PostgreSQL)

Scripting skills in Python or Bash