Platform Engineer

The client is the fastest growing technology company in Scotland, with plans to deploy and invest over £2 billion in the coming years. You would be joining at a relatively early stage of that trajectory. For the right person, this is a chance to build something from the ground up inside a business that is scaling fast. About the Role You will be an infrastructure generalist working across a broad range of technologies to deliver both customer and internal projects. One day you might be building out a virtualisation cluster for a customer, the next you could be troubleshooting a storage replication issue, hardening a firewall estate, or automating a build process that currently takes hours. This is a wide role rather than a narrow one. We are looking for someone who enjoys breadth, is comfortable being the person who picks up an unfamiliar technology and works it out, and who wants to keep learning. You will be given the time, support and opportunity to develop into new areas. Alongside business-as-usual project delivery, you will contribute to the design and build of next-generation cloud and HPC platform, the infrastructure that will underpin our AI and high-performance computing services for years to come. It is a rare chance to help shape a platform from the ground up rather than inherit someone else's. About You The successful candidate will be comfortable with breadth and happy to move between technologies rather than specialise. They will be curious, preferring to understand why something broke rather than just restart it, and pragmatic about automation, automating what's genuinely worth automating rather than automating for its own sake. They will also be a clear communicator, able to explain technical detail to both customers and non-technical colleagues, and capable of working independently on project delivery while knowing when to ask for input. What You'll Be Doing Designing, building, and supporting virtualisation, compute, storage, network and backup infrastructure across our data centresDelivering customer projects end to end, from scoping and design through to build, migration and handoverDelivering internal infrastructure projects that improve our platforms, resilience and efficiencyAutomating repetitive build and configuration work rather than doing it by hand twiceContributing to the architecture and build of future cloud and HPC platformTroubleshooting complex, cross-domain issues where the cause could sit anywhere between the switch port and the applicationProducing and maintaining clear documentation and as-built recordsProviding escalation support to colleagues Essential Experience VMware - vSphere/ESXi in production, including cluster build and lifecycle managementHyper-V - build, configuration and day-to-day operationFortinet - FortiGate firewalls and wider Fortinet product setCisco - switching and routing in a data centre or enterprise environmentStorage - NetApp or comparable enterprise storage platforms (SAN/NAS, replication, snapshots)Scripting and automation — strong practical ability in at least one of: PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible or TerraformBackup - Cohesity or comparable enterprise backup and recovery softwareServer estates – HPE/Dell/Cisco/Lenovo hardware management.Observability — hands-on experience across the monitoring stack: Metrics collection (Zabbix, Prometheus, Nagios or similar)Log collection and aggregation (Graylog, Loki, Logstash or similar)Visualisation and dashboarding (Grafana, Kibana or similar)Working with technologies you have never seen before — a track record of being handed something unfamiliar and getting to a working result: reading the documentation, building a lab, testing your assumptions and asking the right questions. This is a core part of the job, not a nice-to-have We don't expect you to be an expert in all of the above. What matters is that you're genuinely hands-on across most of it, and comfortable working in a live production environment. Desirable Experience Cisco ACIWorking with agentic AI tooling (Claude Code, Codex or similar) as part of day-to-day engineeringOpenStack or other KVM-based hypervisor platformsKubernetes on-premisesCI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflowsGitOps and continuous delivery tooling (Argo CD, Flux or similar)GPU and HPC infrastructure, including high-density and liquid-cooled environments If you tick a lot of the desirable list but only some of the essential, apply anyway. That's where our platform is heading, and we'd rather hire for that strength and fill gaps than the reverse. Tell us in your application what you have and what you'd need to pick up. Benefits 33 days annual leavePension: 5% employee, 5% employerLife assurance at 4x salaryGroup income protection at 70% of salary for up to 2 yearsHelp@Hand: remote GP - physiotherapy, nutritionist, and moreCycle to Work and EV car salary sacrifice schemes6 fully expensed company events per yearOption to donate to charity through salary Apply now for an immediate interview.