Senior Platform Engineer

The Client

Our client is a highly successful global investment firm recognised for its deep commitment to technology, engineering excellence, and continuous innovation. Operating across major financial centres, they run a lean, highly collaborative technology function where engineers work closely with business teams to design, build and refine best-in-class platforms.

They foster a culture that rewards curiosity, encourages ownership, and provides opportunities to work with modern tooling across automation, infrastructure, and cloud. This is an environment for engineers who enjoy solving complex problems, raising standards, and influencing technical direction across user-facing platforms.

What You Get

• A high-impact engineering role in a fast-paced, technology-focused environment.
• Daily interaction with talented engineers across infrastructure, platform, and security.
• Exposure to modern tooling across automation, IaC, virtualisation, cloud platforms, and device management.
• A culture that invests heavily in learning, training budgets, and professional development.
• Excellent benefits, wellness programmes, and a strong focus on building a supportive, collaborative workplace.
• Opportunities to lead projects, introduce new technologies, and directly shape the EUC experience across the organisation.

What You’ll Do

• Own and enhance the global end-user computing (EUC) environment, ensuring a seamless and reliable user experience.
• Act as an escalation point for complex EUC issues, driving root-cause analysis and long-term solutions.
• Engineer and deploy improvements across the Windows, Office, and device-management ecosystem.
• Apply an automation-first mindset, using PowerShell or your preferred scripting language to eliminate toil and improve efficiency.
• Use IaC tools to standardise and automate deployments across a multi-site environment.
• Lead the shift from reactive to proactive platform support by implementing smarter tooling, monitoring and analytics.
• Manage relationships with vendors and partners to improve service quality and platform performance.
• Produce clear technical documentation and share knowledge across the wider engineering team.
• Mentor junior team members when required and collaborate with a wide range of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You’ll Need

• Strong expertise across Windows Server and core services (AD, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, file services).
• Experience leading infrastructure or EUC-focused projects, migrations, or large-scale deployments.
• Hands-on exposure to virtualisation technologies (VMware/Hyper-V) and cloud platforms (Azure/AWS).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation (PowerShell/Python) and working knowledge of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
• Solid understanding of security practices in enterprise Windows environments.
• Strong troubleshooting abilities within complex networks and multi-site environments.
• Experience supporting Windows OS, enterprise applications, Office productivity tools and device lifecycle management.
• Additional beneficial experience may include: log aggregation tools, Exchange administration, VDI technologies, Linux exposure, containerisation, or deployment tooling.
• Clear communication skills, a collaborative mindset, and a drive for continuous improvement.