Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to be based at their client's office in Edinburgh UK.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Edinburgh office 3 days per week .

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

Our client is seeking a senior, hands-on DevOps/Platform Engineer to strengthen a strategic digital transformation programme within the UK financial-services sector. You will combine deep Azure engineering expertise with technical leadership, helping teams design, automate and operate secure, resilient platforms. The role provides the opportunity to work with modern cloud, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability and AI-assisted engineering practices while influencing engineering standards across a complex enterprise environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and continuously improve secure, scalable and resilient Microsoft Azure platform services.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform, supported by appropriate testing and version-control practices.
• Create and optimise CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure and configuration deployments.
• Drive release automation, environment consistency and controlled promotion across the delivery life cycle.
• Implement observability solutions covering logs, metrics, traces, alerting and service-health dashboards.
• Improve platform resilience through capacity planning, failure-mode analysis, backup and recovery controls, and tested operational runbooks.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, engineering standards and mentoring to delivery teams.
• Partner with security, architecture, application and service-management stakeholders to embed governance without slowing delivery.
• Use practical AI and automation capabilities to improve engineering productivity, operational insight, incident response and platform reliability.
• Support complex production issues, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement, including participation in planned release or support activities when required.

Key Requirements

Essential Skills:

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience, including reusable modules, remote state, policy controls and automated validation.
• Demonstrable experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or comparable enterprise tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets management, security controls and governance.
• Experience implementing observability with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and/or comparable monitoring platforms.
• Proven experience engineering highly available, resilient platforms and supporting disaster recovery, incident response and problem management.
• Hands-on Scripting or programming ability, for example PowerShell, Bash, Python or a comparable language.
• Ability to provide technical thought leadership while remaining actively involved in design, build, troubleshooting and delivery.
• Practical experience applying AI or generative-AI capabilities to software delivery, DevOps, platform operations or engineering productivity.
• Clear communication skills and experience working across multidisciplinary teams in a regulated enterprise environment.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in banking, insurance, pensions or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Azure certifications such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with policy-as-code, security scanning, FinOps, service-level objectives and platform engineering/developer self-service patterns.

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