Platform Engineer

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with a passion for infrastructure, automation, and building internal platforms that empower developers to ship quickly, securely, and reliably? We’re working with a fast-growing, technology-led company looking to strengthen their platform engineering function with a skilled and motivated engineer.

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure and internal tooling that forms the backbone of the company’s cloud-native applications. You'll be instrumental in evolving their CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, cloud architecture and much more – all within a highly collaborative, engineering-first culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Design, build, and maintain platform services and infrastructure that support multiple product teams.
  • Improve system reliability, observability, and scalability.
  • Evolve CI/CD pipelines to accelerate safe software delivery.
  • Build tools and automation to enable self-service deployment and infrastructure provisioning.
  • Champion security best practices across infrastructure and development workflows.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and security teams.
  • Support production systems through on-call rotation and proactive issue resolution.

Key Tech Experience:

  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
  • Cloud: AWS
  • CI/CD: Argo
  • Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
  • Monitoring & Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog
  • Logging: ELK or LGTM stack
  • Scripting & Systems: Linux, Bash/shell scripting
  • Version Control: Git
  • Security: Strong awareness of security principles and DevSecOps best practices
Company
Ronald James Group
Location
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Company
Ronald James Group
Location
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Posted