Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer - Manchester (2 days a week onsite) Salary up to £65,000 + bonus

The Role If you're an engineer who enjoys solving problems, building automation, and improving how teams work, this Platform Engineer role offers a chance to make a genuine impact. You'll join a Platform Engineering team focused on enabling developers, reducing friction, and creating scalable solutions that make software easier to build, deploy, and operate. This isn't a role for someone who simply works through tickets; it's for someone who sees a problem and wants to engineer a better way of doing things.

The Opportunity The team is investing heavily in automation, self-service capabilities, and modern platform engineering practices. You'll work closely with development teams to eliminate manual processes, improve developer experience, and build tooling that increases engineering velocity across the organisation.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys building solutions from scratch and wants to influence how platforms evolve over time.

What You'll Be Doing

Building and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, and Python

Supporting CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Working with Docker and Kubernetes to support modern containerised workloads

Collaborating with development teams to improve reliability, scalability, and developer experience

Automating repetitive operational activities and improving platform tooling

Contributing to platform standards, documentation, and engineering best practices

Tech Stack

AWS (EC2, S3, IAM, VPC)

Terraform & Ansible

Docker & Kubernetes

Jenkins & Argo CD

VMware environments

What We're Looking For

Experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or Infrastructure Automation

Strong Terraform, Ansible, and Kubernetes experience

Good AWS knowledge and understanding of modern cloud environments

A strong automation mindset and passion for continuous improvement

Someone who enjoys learning new technologies and solving unfamiliar problems

A builder's mentality, creating solutions rather than simply maintaining them

Why Apply?

You'll be joining a team that values engineering, automation, and innovation over process for process' sake. If you enjoy building platforms, improving developer experience, and solving meaningful technical challenges, this is an opportunity to help shape the next phase of a growing Platform Engineering function.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.