Summary
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A highly skilled Platform Engineer is needed to design, automate, and operate secure and reliable infrastructure platforms. The role centers on enterprise CI/CD, infrastructure automation, reusable configuration components, cloud platforms, security, reliability, and enabling development teams to deliver software efficiently.
Highlights
Platform engineering opportunity focused on enterprise-scale automation, secure infrastructure, CI/CD, reliability, and developer experience using leading automation and delivery platforms.
Description
DevOps Platform engineer
Leeds / Halifax / Manchester
Contract
Engineering delivery of centralized capability within Ansible & Harness productsHighly skilled Platform Engineer to design, build, automate, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure platforms that enable development teams to deliver applications efficiently.
The role focuses on cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, DevOps practices, platform reliability, security, and developer experience.
Your Profile
Essential skills/knowledge/experience:
**Advanced Harness Administration:** Deep practical experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Harness (CD & CI) at scale.
Must include experience with pipeline-as-code & template management.
**Enterprise Ansible Automation:** Proven expertise writing robust, reusable Ansible Playbooks, Roles, and Collections.
Strong experience managing enterprise configurations via Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and Ansible Core, including inventory management, execution environments, and RBAC of centralised instances.
**Shared Services Management:** Demonstrated track record of delivering, scaling, and maintaining CI/CD and automation tools including Harness / Ansible as a centralized service for wide consumption across multiple engineering teams (1000+ developers).
* **"Platform-as-a-Product" Mindset:** Experience treating internal tooling as a product, including gathering developer requirements & creating clear documentation.
**Containerization & Orchestration:** Solid understanding of **Docker** and **Kubernetes** for deploying, scaling, and managing Ansible execution environments.
**Security & Compliance:** Experience integrating security guardrails into central pipelines (e.g., secrets management via HashiCorp Vault, role-based access control, and automated compliance scanning).
**API & Integration Skills:** Experience extending the capabilities of Harness and Ansible by integrating them via APIs with other enterprise tools (e.g., Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub/GitLab, Monitoring tools).
