Senior Platform Engineer

Reading Source: WhatJobs
£70,000–£110,000

Hybrid Working | Competitive Salary + Benefits

An exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team responsible for building and evolving a modern cloud platform.

We're particularly interested in individuals who combine strong Kubernetes expertise with a software engineering mindset , and who enjoy designing solutions rather than simply maintaining existing infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, build and automate cloud-native platform services
  • Scale and optimise Kubernetes environments that support business-critical applications
  • Work closely with development teams to understand product requirements and design platform solutions
  • Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and configuration management tooling
  • Improve deployment processes, automation and developer productivity
  • Enhance system reliability, observability and platform security
  • Champion SRE and Platform Engineering best practices

Skills & Experience

  • Proven background in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps or Software Development
  • Strong Kubernetes knowledge and operational experience
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code expertise
  • Linux and automation tooling experience
  • Development or scripting experience (Python, Go, Bash or similar)
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps methodologies

Ideal Candidate

You'll likely come from a software engineering, SRE or platform engineering background and enjoy designing scalable solutions, automating processes, and building platforms that help developers move faster.

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