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 environments Extensive 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 optimisation Experience provisioning infrastructure using CloudFormation, with Terraform or Pulumi experience beneficial Experience with container orchestration using ECS and/or Kubernetes Strong Docker experience, including image management and multi-stage builds Experience 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 tooling Strong Bash/Shell scripting experience Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI or similar Experience implementing: -Blue-green deployments -Canary releases -Controlled rollout strategies Strong Git and version control best practices Experience 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 segmentation Awareness of PCI-DSS within an e-commerce environment Experience 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 management Experience with log aggregation platforms Experience integrating monitoring and CI/CD tooling with Jira Service Management or similar platforms The Desirables Experience with Golang Experience working with Microsoft Azure Experience with Google Cloud Platform Windows Server administration (Domain Controllers, Hyper-V, Group Policy) PowerShell scripting Database administration across: -MySQL -MariaDB -PostgreSQL -SQL Server Elasticsearch/OpenSearch experience Experience managing Redis/ElastiCache clusters Exposure to AI-driven operations tooling (AIOps, ChatOps, intelligent monitoring) Experience within high-volume e-commerce environments Mathematics or Computer Science degree (or equivalent experience) What are the benefits? Opportunity to work on a modern hybrid cloud platform supporting a rapidly growing business Work with cutting-edge cloud, DevOps and observability technologies High level of technical ownership and autonomy Collaborative engineering culture with opportunities to influence platform strategy Ongoing learning and professional development