Senior AWS Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
Manchester City Centre - Hybrid (2 days onsite)
Up to £80,000 base salary + 10% bonus + strong benefits
One of the North West’s largest engineering platforms is going through a huge modernisation journey after completing a major migration onto its own proprietary platform.
The scale is massive.
Millions of users globally. Large-scale distributed systems. High availability infrastructure running 24/7 where reliability, automation and performance genuinely matter.
They’re now looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help shape the next phase of their platform and cloud engineering environment.
This is a heavily hands-on role focused around:
• Kubernetes & cloud-native infrastructure
• AWS platform engineering
• CI/CD & GitOps
• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code
• Automation & internal tooling
• Reliability, observability & developer experience
The environment itself is what stood out most to me.
This isn’t a place where Platform Engineers are treated like ticket machines sitting away from engineering teams. Platform, DevOps and Software Engineers work very closely together, and there’s a genuine focus on improving how engineering operates across the business.
There’s also a lot of investment going into modern engineering practices and reducing operational overhead properly rather than endlessly patching legacy problems.
Tech across the environment includes:
• Kubernetes
• AWS (most of the platform)
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Datadog
• Splunk
• VMware
Don't worry if you don't have all this tech. It is just to show you what they work with. Please still apply if you are interested.
Good fit for someone from a Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE background who enjoys solving complex infrastructure problems and building scalable internal platforms.
One of the more underrated things about the business is the tenure. A lot of engineers stay long-term (5+ years) because the technical challenges remain interesting, whilst the environment itself stays stable and well-supported.
No CV needed initially, either. Happy to start with a LinkedIn profile and take it from there.