Platform Engineer

Manchester Digital; Crewe; Remote; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance the security and performance of production environments. The candidate will collaborate with multiple teams to drive platform improvements, including AWS technologies and Infrastructure as Code principles. Join a vibrant team in a dynamic environment that values innovation and offers flexible working conditions.

Benefits

Flexible remote working options

Company-paid health benefits

Flexible holiday policy

'Work From Anywhere' Policy

Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS cloud technologies required.
• Proficient in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation.
• Strong customer service and troubleshooting skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure platform security, reliability, and performance across systems.
• Contribute to key projects, platform optimizations, and ongoing maintenance.
• Help drive scalability and operational excellence.

Skills

AWS cloud technologies

Linux System Administration

Scripting languages

Containerization

Security hardening

Site Reliability Engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Observability Systems

Networking

Education

AWS Certification

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Ansible

Nagios

CloudWatch

Job description

At IMS, we’re on a mission to make driving safer and smarter through connected car and telematics innovation.

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in supporting that mission by collaborating with infrastructure, cloud, and engineering teams to build, maintain, and continuously enhance the availability, security, and performance of our production and test environments.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

• Ensure platform security, reliability, and performance across systems deployed in Canada, the UK, and AWS cloud environments
• Contribute to key projects, platform optimizations, and ongoing maintenance initiatives
• Help drive scalability, observability, and operational excellence

If you’re passionate about infrastructure, cloud, and systems engineering—and want to help shape the future of mobility—we want to hear from you!

Requirements

We know you will have a wide skill set, but to thrive in this role we think you will need:

- Excellent customer-facing/customer service skills.
- Linux System Administration.
- A thorough understanding and commercial experience of AWS cloud technologies, e.g., EC2, ECS, Route53, S3, EFS.
- Scripting languages (at least proficient in two), e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Understanding of containerization, microservice architecture and cloud/software design patterns, GitLab or similar for CI/CD.
- Understanding and implementation of security hardening and vulnerability management.
- Understanding and management of identity providers and SSO configurations (Azure AD , Ory, Cognito, Firebase)

- Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering and key concepts

- Proficient in Infrastructure as Code pipeline deployments and pipeline version control within Terraform or CloudFormation.

- Observability Systems, e.g., Nagios, New Relic

- Able to troubleshoot/work under pressure, meet deadlines.

- Previous experience in a cloud engineering role.
- AWS certified as SysOps Administrator / Solutions Architect / DevOps Engineer.
- Understanding of SEIM setup and administration, e.g. Arctic Wolf
- Database architectures, both relational and NoSQL, e.g., RDS, DynamoDB, Athena, Cassandra
- Experience with virtualisation platforms such as VMWare, Hyper V
- Storage and Data availability systems, e.g., HP Nimble, NetApp.
- Networking and Domain Communication, e.g., LDAP, DNS , VPN, Firewalls.

- Configuration Management, e.g., Ansible, Puppet.

- Thorough understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles and related tech such as Terraform or CloudFormation

- Enhanced experience of AWS cloud technologies, e.g., ECS, EC2, VPC, Lambda, CFS. Ideally AWS certified.

- Observability Systems, e.g., New Relic, CloudWatch, SquadCast

- ITIL Qualified or awareness of the framework.

Bonus Qualifications:

-Experience with Linux system administration and troubleshooting.

-Basic knowledge of AWS cloud technologies such as EC2, S3, RDS, and ECS.

-Exposure to databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, or Cassandra.

-Understanding of monitoring tools (New Relic, CloudWatch, Nagios).

-Awareness of ITIL frameworks and structured service operations.

-NISC2 or similar security qualifications or knowledge

Why should you join us?

• Brand new collaborative, open-concept office for those days when you want to work collaboratively in person! We’re located in the Waterloo tech hub: the David Johnson Research + Technology Park
• Flexible remote working options
• Opportunity to work within a global team
• We’re an innovative technology leader with plans for growth in the global telematics industry. These are some exciting times!
• Company-paid group health (and dental) benefits program, with no waiting period - they start from day one!
• RRSP matching program
• Flexible holiday policy to really make the most of your time and wellbeing
• 'Work From Anywhere' Policy - work almost anywhere in the world for 30 days per year!
• Employee Assistance Program and an enhanced maternity/paternity package
• Kudos Hub - a peer-to-peer recognition system, where you can recognize others using points. These points can be collected and redeemed against a huge catalog of rewards!
  
  

Even if you do not meet all of the above criteria, please consider applying! If you have any questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with our HR team, [e-mail]

IMS is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.