Platform Engineer

Anglian Water Services; Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water services company in the UK is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer. You will design and maintain internal platforms, ensuring secure and efficient digital services. The ideal candidate has experience in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and strong scripting skills. This position offers a competitive salary starting from £41,400 per annum and benefits including a double matched pension scheme and personal private healthcare.

Benefits

Double Matched Pension Scheme

Car Allowance

26 Days Annual Leave

Personal private health care

Annual bonus scheme

Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work

Life Cover at 8× your salary

Flexible benefits to support wellbeing

Free parking at all offices

Qualifications

• Experience with cloud governance policies for security, cost, and compliance.
• Ability to partner with Cloud and SRE teams to improve service stability.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and self-service catalogue of standardized infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the core platform for engineering teams.
• Improve service stability and cost efficiency with Cloud and SRE teams.
• Integrate observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Establish frameworks for fast and repeatable application deployments.
• Trial new tools and contribute to the strategic roadmap.

Skills

Significant hands-on experience with a major cloud provider

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep or Terraform)

Experience with CI/CD and automation (Azure DevOps)

Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell)

Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures

Strong collaboration and communication skills

Platform-as-a-Product mindset

Ability to analyse complex systems

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

From £41,400 per annum (depending on skills & experience) Full time / 37 hrs a week / Permanent Huntingdon - Hybrid Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

We’re building a modern engineering culture where automation, reliability, and developer experience are central to how we deliver technology. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative team including Cloud, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineers, all focused on enabling secure, efficient, and resilient digital services.

You’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and evolving internal platforms that empower our System, Product, and Delivery teams to develop, deploy, and operate digital and data services with speed, safety, and consistency. With a strong product mindset, you’ll simplify complexity, abstract infrastructure, and create self‑service capabilities that make it easy for engineers to do the right thing by default.

What will you be doing as a Platform Engineer?

• Create and maintain the core platform for engineering teams to build and run their services.
• Partner with Cloud and SRE teams to improve service stability and cost efficiency.
• Implement and enforce cloud governance policies for security, cost, and compliance.
• Develop a self‑service catalogue of standardised infrastructure patterns and services.
• Integrate observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing.
• Establish frameworks and automation for fast, safe, and repeatable application deployments.
• Lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.
• Trial new tools and technologies to improve ways of working and contribute to the strategic roadmap.

What does it take to be a Platform Engineer?

• Significant hands‑on experience with a major cloud provider (preferably Microsoft Azure).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep or Terraform).
• Experience with CI/CD and automation (Azure DevOps pipelines).
• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell).
• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud‑native architectures.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Platform‑as‑a‑Product mindset with curiosity and adaptability.
• Ability to analyse complex systems and identify performance bottlenecks.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Double Matched Pension Scheme – matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)
• Car Allowance
• 26 Days Annual Leave
• Personal private health care
• Annual bonus scheme
• Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work in the community
• Life Cover at 8× your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5× your salary
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Free parking at all offices, sites, and leisure parks

We’re a purpose‑led organisation committed to sustainability, innovation, and delivering long‑term value for our customers and communities. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in enabling secure, efficient, and resilient digital services that power our future.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. We’re committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. We’re proud to support the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, Armed Forces Covenant (Gold), Disability Confident scheme, and the Women’s Utility Network.

Closing date: 10/12/25

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