Platform Engineer

Motability Operations Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mobility solutions provider in the UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to develop and support secure cloud-native platform services. This role involves improving OpenShift platforms on AWS, driving automation, and ensuring platform performance. Ideal candidates should have 3+ years of experience in platform engineering and strong skills in Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code. This position offers a hybrid working model, competitive benefits, and a focus on employee well-being.

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonus

28 days annual leave with purchasing/selling options

Funded Private Medical Insurance cover

Cycle to Work Scheme

Access to fully accessible company allotment

Qualifications

• Proven experience with cloud-native technologies and fast-paced environments.
• Solid Linux knowledge and scripting skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and improve OpenShift platforms on AWS.
• Ensure platform performance, availability, security, and capacity.
• Drive automation of platform operations and infrastructure delivery.

Skills

Strong technical skills in platform engineering

Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities

Customer-focused attitude

Self-motivation and ability to work independently

Education

3+ years in platform engineering or similar roles

2+ years designing, building, configuring, and operating container platforms

Tools

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)

OpenShift or Kubernetes experience

Public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)

Job description

About The Role

As a Platform Engineer in the Container Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in developing, improving, and supporting secure, scalable, and automated container platform services — primarily RedHat OpenShift on AWS. The platform is well-established, and you’ll help ensure it continues to evolve in line with business needs and is consumed in a “Platform as a Product” model.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Delivering and continually improving our OpenShift platforms on AWS
• Ensuring platform performance, availability, security, and capacity meet business needs.
• Driving automation of platform operations and infrastructure delivery (IaC).
• Supporting the migration and onboarding of services to the container platform.
• Maintaining up-to-date documentation of platform configuration and processes.
• Contributing to roadmap planning and prioritisation.
• Supporting business continuity through resilient platform design.

About You

You’re a hands‑on engineer with a pragmatic mindset and a passion for cloud‑native technologies. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex problems with scalable solutions.

You bring:

• Strong technical skills and cloud platform knowledge.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• A structured, disciplined approach to planning and delivery.
• Clear, proactive communication — both technical and non‑technical.
• A continuous improvement mindset and eagerness to learn.
• A customer‑focused attitude with an understanding of business priorities.
• Self‑motivation and the ability to work independently or as part of a team.
• Comfort working in fast‑paced environments and adapting to changing priorities.

Minimum criteria:

• 3+ years in platform engineering or similar roles.
• 2+ years designing, building, configuring, and operating container platforms (OpenShift or Kubernetes).
• Solid experience with public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).
• Strong Linux knowledge, scripting skills, and significant experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and agile development practices.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, networking, and distributed systems.
• Awareness of governance, compliance, and security best practices.

About The Company

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry‑free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included. We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

Our values are at the heart of everything we do. They represent ambition, and we look for our people to live and breathe them every day:

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on‑site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2-days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non‑contributory pension (9% non‑contributory pension during probation period)
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
• Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

As well as financial benefits, our staff's health and well‑being are very important to us, so we also offer:

• 28 days annual leave with option to purchase and sell days
• Funded Private Medical Insurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Free access to healthcare apps, such as Peppy, Unmind, Aviva Digital GP
• Funded health screening for over 50s
• 1 day per year to volunteer – Staff can support a local charity or do a sponsored event whilst being paid for it
• Access to our fully accessible company allotment – Where we grow our own produce for local charitable organisations
• Access to Prayer room and quiet spaces whilst working in the office

We also understand that not everyone is the same so offer several voluntary benefits that you can select outside the core package, these include:

• Dental Insurance
• Health and cancer screenings for you and your partner
• Discounted gym memberships
• Charitable giving

At Motability Operations, we believe in building a diverse workforce, where our people are empowered to attend work as their true selves, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply. We want to sustain a culture that nurtures, where employees are free to flourish and they’re rewarded equally, regardless of race, nationality or ethnic origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or gender.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer and as such, all our offices provide first‑rate disability access. With our hybrid working environment, we do our best to accommodate part‑time and flexible working requests where possible, building on our culture of trust, empowerment, and flexibility.

Please note, Motability Operations reserves the right to bring forward the closing date of any of its job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of quality applications from which to make a shortlist. Therefore, we recommend that you apply as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date.