Platform Engineer

Alpine Formula One Team; Enstone; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

Private medical

Pension scheme

Car scheme

Hybrid working

On-site facilities (gym, subsidised)

Holiday buy-back

Job summary

Alpine F1 Team is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Enstone headquarters. You will own infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability to accelerate software delivery across the engineering group.

You'll work closely with stream-aligned teams to reduce friction, improve reliability, and enable fast, safe deployments while upholding strong security and cost hygiene.

Qualifications

• Experience in platform, infrastructure or DevOps engineering.
• Familiarity with IaC workflows and state management.
• Strong focus on reliability, logging, metrics and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain infrastructure as code with version control and reproducibility.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with fast feedback and safe deployments.
• Instrument systems with logs, metrics, traces and dashboards for observability.
• Apply SRE principles: SLIs/SLOs and participate in incident post-mortems.
• Collaborate with engineers to improve developer experience and remove friction.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

Observability

CI/CD design

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

OpenTofu

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

GitOps (Flux/ArgoCD)

Python scripting

Job description

Every lap in Formula 1 generates vast amounts of data. Every decision — from car setup to race strategy — depends on software that can process, move, and surface that data at speed. Without the right platform underneath, none of it works.

Alpine F1 Team's Platform Engineering function builds and operates the foundations that the rest of engineering relies on: infrastructure, delivery pipelines, observability, and the services that keep our software teams moving fast and shipping safely. The team sits within Alpine's Software Engineering & Data group and works closely with stream-aligned development teams to understand their needs and remove friction.

We're hiring a Platform Engineer to join the team at our headquarters in Enstone, Oxfordshire.

The Role

• Writing and maintaining infrastructure as code — ensuring changes are version-controlled, reviewed, and reproducible. You'll care about state management, drift, and keeping infrastructure costs honest.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that give developers fast feedback loops and safe, reliable deployments. Feature flags, rollback strategies, and staged rollouts are part of how we ship.
• Instrumenting systems with meaningful logs, metrics, and traces. You'll build dashboards and alerts, and treat observability as part of the definition of done for every new system.
• Applying reliability engineering practices — SLIs, SLOs, error budgets — and contributing to incident response, post-mortems, and the follow-up actions that prevent the same failure twice.
• Working directly with engineers across the group to understand their workflows, identify friction, and improve the developer experience. The platform team exists to enable other teams, not to gatekeep them.

The Person

You take ownership of your work, communicate clearly, and approach disagreement with curiosity rather than defensiveness. You care about doing things properly — not because someone told you to, but because you've seen what happens when corners are cut.

We don't require specific certifications, and we don't have a laundry list of tools you must have used. If you've worked seriously in platform, infrastructure, or DevOps engineering and you bring the right instincts — reliability-minded, developer-focused, infrastructure-as-code by default — we want to hear from you.

We Are Looking For Individuals Who Have

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience using Ansible or similar for configuration management and automation.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with GitOps, such as Flux or ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge in observability, including setting up monitoring and troubleshooting production issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to both on-premise and cloud platforms is beneficial.
• Comfortable with scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to support automation and tooling.

What We Offer

This is Formula 1. The software our teams build directly influences how the car performs on track. Platform Engineering makes that software possible — your work has a direct line to the grid.

You'll join a group that values technical excellence over speed for its own sake, long-term thinking over quick fixes, and genuine collaboration over silos. We believe maintainable is always cheaper than quick, and we've tested that belief enough times to know it's true.

• competitive remuneration package
• private medical healthcare
• company pension scheme
• car scheme
• flexible working opportunities including hybrid arrangements
• access to excellent on-site facilities at our Enstone headquarters, including a free gym and subsidised restaurant
• additional benefits such as a holiday buy-back scheme

Applicants must have permanent right to work in the UK.