Platform Engineer

Bright Purple; Bedford; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Purple is seeking an experienced Azure Platform Engineer to shape the cloud platform behind a market-leading software product. You will own the Azure environment, ensuring security, scalability and resilience to support product engineering teams.

You’ll design, build and maintain the Azure platform, drive IaC automation, and work with development teams to deliver reliable, secure, high-performing services. A passion for cloud best practices is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise Azure platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong understanding of networking, identity and security in Azure.
• Experience with monitoring and platform performance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain the Azure platform.
• Drive platform automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage cloud networking, identity, security and governance.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for resilience, scalability and cost.
• Collaborate with development teams to provide a reliable and secure platform.
• Champion cloud best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Azure DevOps

Automation

Observability

Platform engineering

SaaS environments (advantage)

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Job description

Are you an experienced Azure Platform Engineer looking to help shape the cloud platform behind a market-leading software product?

We're working with an innovative software company looking for a Platform Engineer to take ownership of their Azure environment, ensuring it's secure, scalable and resilient. You'll play a key role in maintaining and evolving the cloud platform that supports their product engineering teams, enabling them to deliver new features quickly and reliably.

This is an opportunity to join a collaborative engineering team where platform, automation and cloud best practice are at the heart of everything they do.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build and maintain the Azure platform.
• Drive platform automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Manage cloud networking, identity, security and governance.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability.
• Optimise cloud infrastructure for resilience, scalability and cost.
• Work closely with development teams to provide a reliable, secure and high-performing platform.
• Champion cloud best practice and continuous improvement.

What we're looking for:

• Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience building and supporting enterprise Azure platforms.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, ideally Terraform or Bicep.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of networking, identity and security within Azure.
• Experience with monitoring, observability and platform performance.
• Passion for automation and modern platform engineering.
• Previous experience supporting SaaS or software product environments would be advantageous.