Platform Engineer

Lorien; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Hybrid working

Private healthcare

Recognition rewards

Professional development

Upskilling avenues

Friendly team

Job summary

Lorien's client is seeking a Platform Engineer based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, offering a hybrid pattern with around two days in the office. A base around £65k plus bonus is on the table for a candidate who can drive automation and IaC across Azure, Terraform, and cloud platforms.

You will join a team shaping a platform-driven approach, building reusable components and self-serve tooling for internal users while growing ownership and technical influence.

Qualifications

• Practical experience with IaC – Terraform / Terraform Cloud is a must-have.
• Hands-on production workload experience in a major public cloud (Azure/Azure DevOps preferred; AWS/GCP accepted).
• Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines with code review workflows.
• Automate and script with PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Solid understanding of cloud networking and identity concepts (VNETs, private connectivity, DNS, IAM).
• Experience testing changes and following a formal change process.
• Ability to assemble evidence for releases (tests, rollback plans, handovers).
• Contribute ideas to technical designs and challenge where better options exist.
• Clear written and verbal communication; comfortable with AI-assisted development tools.
• Familiarity with configuration management, monitoring, alerting or incident response.
• Awareness of security and compliance basics.
• Experience with different cloud hosting models (managed databases, containers, orchestration).

Responsibilities

• Split time between hands-on build work and partnering with platform-dependent teams.
• Own defined platform chunks end-to-end from build to testing and handover.
• Define done criteria, testing, rollback, and post-release support requirements.
• Write and maintain pipelines and automation for cloud environments.
• Create reusable templates, modules and runbooks.
• Engage in design discussions and code reviews with senior engineers.
• Identify risks early and propose options rather than problems.
• Keep documentation up-to-date for future teams.

Skills

Terraform / Terraform Cloud

Azure / Azure DevOps

Git / CI/CD pipelines

PowerShell / Bash / Python

Cloud networking & identity

Infrastructure as code

Automation & scripting

Change management & testing

Documentation & handovers

Effective communicator

AI-assisted tooling awareness

Configuration management & monitoring

Security & compliance basics

Cloud hosting models experience

Job description

Platform Engineer - Terraform - Glasgow / Edinburgh Hybrid - 65K plus Bonus

Hybrid - Around 2 days per week in either their Central Edinburgh or Central Glasgow office (whichever's best for you)

About the Role

Lorien’s longstanding client (who craft key data-oriented solutions to reduce time and headaches on their customers’ side) is looking for a Platform Engineer based in Edinburgh or Glasgow who enjoys turning manual, repetitive infrastructure work into something automated, reliable, and easy for other teams to use.

Historically, most of the tooling built here has been used internally by the operations side of the business. That is changing. The direction now is towards a proper platform model: shared services, well-defined boundaries, and self-serve tools that other engineering teams can pick up and use without needing hand-holding. You would be joining at a good moment to help shape that shift, working on real infrastructure problems alongside people who already have strong standards and patterns in place.

This suits someone who wants to get deeper into cloud infrastructure, automation, and the "everything as code" way of working, without having to invent the playbook from scratch. There's an established way of doing things here, senior people to learn from, and genuine room to grow into bigger pieces of ownership.

They’re a growing firm with great projects in the pipeline, happy to offer a range of incentives including bonuses, hybrid working, private healthcare, recognition rewards, professional development and ongoing upskilling avenues, and friendly people to work with (ask us, we’ve placed many of them ourselves over the years)

Main Responsibilities

• Splitting your time between hands-on build work and building good relationships with the teams who depend on the platform, including product engineering, operations, security, and compliance.
• Taking on well-defined chunks of platform work and owning them end to end, from build through to testing, documentation, and handover, rather than just writing code and moving on.
• Agreeing what "done" looks like before you start, including how it will be tested, how it can be rolled back, and what the team needs to know to support it afterwards.
• Writing and maintaining the pipelines and automation that keep cloud-based SaaS environments running smoothly, using infrastructure-as-code tools, DevOps pipelines, configuration automation, and scripting to cut down on manual effort.
• Building things that other people can reuse; templates, modules, and runbooks, rather than one-off fixes that only work once.
• Getting involved in design conversations and code reviews, learning from more experienced engineers, and passing on what you pick up to the rest of the team.
• Flagging risks, unknowns, and dependencies as early as possible, and coming with options rather than just problems.
• Keeping documentation current so that the next person (including future you) isn't left guessing.

Knowledge & Skills

• Practical experience with IaC (infrastructure as code) – Terraform / Terraform Cloud is a must-have
• Real, hands-on experience running production workloads in a major public cloud environment (this role is Azure / Azure DevOps based, but they are open to folk crossing over from AWS / GCP backgrounds)
• Comfortable working with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines, including code review and pull request workflows
• Able to automate and script using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python
• A solid grasp of cloud networking and identity concepts, such as virtual networks, private connectivity, DNS, and access control
• Experience testing your own changes properly and working within a formal change process
• Able to put together the evidence needed to release safely, such as test results, rollback plans, and handovers
• Confident contributing ideas into technical designs, not just implementing someone else's, and even challenging where better options are available
• Clear written and verbal communicator, especially around progress, risk, and blockers
• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, understanding their limits and checking their output
• Interest in or experience with AI-assisted engineering beyond basic code suggestions
• Familiarity with configuration management tools and some exposure to monitoring, alerting, or incident response
• Awareness of security and compliance basics
• Experience with different cloud hosting models, whether that's managed database services, containers, or orchestration platforms