Platform Engineer

Opticore IT is a specialist Network Engineer and Project Management consultancy offering a wide variety of opportunities to work within fast-paced, challenging environments across our client base spanning multiple sectors, including Finance, Broadcast Media, Telecommunications and more. Opticore IT are currently searching for Platform Engineers with strong AWS, CloudFormation and PowerShell experience. You'll join our excellent team, based in the London area, with 2 days a week on-site. This is a 6-month contract, inside IR35, with scope to extend. This is an 18 - 24 month project. A Bit About The Opportunity Evolve and operate the Enterprise Platform product set across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premise workloads, driving automation-first engineering to keep corporate application hosting efficient, stable and secure while continuously reducing manual toil. What You'll Be Doing Provision, scale and optimise infrastructure across AWS, Azure and GCP, spanning IaaS, PaaS and foundational services.Develop the Enterprise Platforms product set through Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation) and configuration management tooling (Puppet) to solve infrastructure operations problems and reduce manual toil.Administer and harden a mixed estate of Windows Server, RHEL and Rocky Linux, primarily through automation with scope for hands-on work in the legacy environment.Day-to-day operation in cloud environments (AWS FSx, S3, EC2).Support and automate the platform aspects of VDI infrastructure via AWS WorkSpaces and AppStream.Implement observability with LogicMonitor to track SLIs and SLOs, and manage enterprise-grade backup and recovery via Commvault.Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, leveraging GitHub Copilot to accelerate scripting and automation tasks.Participate in the in-hours front-door rota (emergency response, small engineering requests, FinOps and SecOps) and the out-of-hours P1 and major P2 rota, cyclically 1 week in 5.Codify central infrastructure automation for Windows Server, Linux and SQL Server using Puppet, PowerShell and Python.Provide consultancy to business and application teams, defining non-functional requirements and producing high-quality technical documentation to support engineering work.Participate in lifecycle and release management to keep platforms N-1 or better, with effective blast radius protection during change. What You'll Bring Extensive experience with AWS PaaS & Public Cloud Platform Engineering. Practical experience of working with AWS PaaS services in an enterprise hosting context, comfortable with core AWS building blocks for corporate application platforms.Solid experience with PowerShell Automation & API Integration. Excellent PowerShell automation experience, including working with APIs to integrate platform components and drive engineering work at scale.Working knowledge of Windows Server or Linux. Demonstrable technical understanding of either Windows Server or Linux (RHEL / Rocky), backed by operational experience in a second stack drawn from Windows Server, Linux or SQL ServerStrong background in Platform Engineering Practice (IaC & Config Management). Production experience of orchestration, automation and software configuration management tooling. Puppet is ideal; adjacent IaC exposure with CloudFormation (preferred) or Terraform supports this.Good understanding of Stakeholder Engagement & Agile Delivery. Confident engaging technical experts and non-technical business stakeholders. Scrum or Kanban delivery experience is essential per the client, with tools and measurement exposure expected Diversity At Opticore IT we embrace diversity and are committed to equal opportunities. We actively recruit for an inclusive and diverse workforce and as such, want to ensure we do everything we can to support your application. We want you to feel empowered to let us know if you require any adjustments to be made with your application or interview process so please speak to our recruitment team.