Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer Location: Speke, Liverpool Work Pattern: Hybrid Salary: £55,000-£65,000 We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join the technology team. This role will play a central part in managing and automating our hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure, working closely with the Technology Director, Development and IT & Systems teams to drive automation, reliability and operational excellence across our technology estate. Our infrastructure spans multiple cloud providers alongside on-premises environments, supporting a fast-growing, high-volume e-commerce platform. You'll champion Infrastructure as Code, develop robust CI/CD and deployment pipelines, establish comprehensive observability, and help drive the adoption of modern DevOps practices across the engineering organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to influence the future of our platform, improving infrastructure automation, deployment strategies, monitoring, security and operational excellence whilst collaborating across Development, IT & Systems and Data teams. You'll also contribute to documentation, knowledge sharing and mentoring, helping to build a culture of continuous improvement. What are we looking for? The Essentials 5+ years' commercial experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability or Infrastructure Engineering role within hybrid cloud and on-premises environmentsExtensive hands-on AWS experience including:-EC2 -RDS -ECS -ElastiCache -S3 -CloudFront -Route 53 -Lambda -IAM -VPC Networking -WAF Strong understanding of AWS billing models, cost allocation and optimisationExperience provisioning infrastructure using CloudFormation, with Terraform or Pulumi experience beneficialExperience with container orchestration using ECS and/or KubernetesStrong Docker experience, including image management and multi-stage buildsExperience with Cloudflare (or similar CDN, DNS and edge security platforms)Strong Linux administration experience (Ubuntu, CentOS/RHEL)Excellent networking knowledge including:-DNS -Load balancing -VPNs -Firewalls -Subnets -NAT -VPC Peering Strong Python skills for automation, cloud APIs and DevSecOps toolingStrong Bash/Shell scripting experienceExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similarExperience implementing:-Blue-green deployments -Canary releases -Controlled rollout strategies Strong Git and version control best practicesExperience with cloud security tooling including:-GuardDuty -Security Hub -Macie -Inspector Experience with Snyk (or equivalent security scanning tools)Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management and network segmentationAwareness of PCI-DSS within an e-commerce environmentExperience implementing monitoring and observability using tools such as:-New Relic -Grafana -Loki -CloudWatch -Prometheus -Datadog Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets and incident managementExperience with log aggregation platformsExperience integrating monitoring and CI/CD tooling with Jira Service Management or similar platforms The Desirables Experience with GolangExperience working with Microsoft AzureExperience with Google Cloud PlatformWindows Server administration (Domain Controllers, Hyper-V, Group Policy)PowerShell scriptingDatabase administration across:-MySQL -MariaDB -PostgreSQL -SQL Server Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experienceExperience managing Redis/ElastiCache clustersExposure to AI-driven operations tooling (AIOps, ChatOps, intelligent monitoring)Experience within high-volume e-commerce environmentsMathematics or Computer Science degree (or equivalent experience) What are the benefits? Opportunity to work on a modern hybrid cloud platform supporting a rapidly growing businessWork with cutting-edge cloud, DevOps and observability technologiesHigh level of technical ownership and autonomyCollaborative engineering culture with opportunities to influence platform strategyOngoing learning and professional development