Platform Engineer

Innovative Technology; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global technology leader is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer for a 6-month fixed-term contract in Oldham, Greater Manchester. You will design and implement scalable internal systems, enhancing developer workflows and reducing operational friction. Ideal candidates must have experience with cloud platforms, programming, and container orchestration. The position offers competitive salary and various employee perks, including flexible hours and healthcare insurance.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working hours

32 days holiday plus extra days

Enhanced Pension Contribution

Healthcare Insurance

Wellbeing support

Life Insurance

Income Protection Insurance

Free secure parking

Onsite electric car charging

Informal dress code

Paid breaks with free drinks

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Proficient in scripting or programming languages such as Python, Go, or Bash.
• Experience with containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Familiar with CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Build internal platforms and paved paths for service deployment.
• Codify infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.
• Develop and maintain developer tooling and templates for standardization.
• Design observability frameworks for metrics, tracing, and logging.
• Automate repetitive tasks to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency.

Skills

Platform Engineering experience

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Scripting or programming (Python, Go, Bash)

Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)

Infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform)

Observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana)

Linux systems and networking fundamentals

Problem-solving and debugging skills

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer, who is looking to work in a fast paced, global, market leading company?

Here at Innovative Technology, we are seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to join our team on a 6-month fixed-term contract to design and implement scalable internal systems that empower developers, reduce operational friction, and promote secure-by-default best practices.

You will work across infrastructure, tooling, and developer workflows to build reliable, self-service platforms that scale with the company.This role will be based at our Head Office in Oldham, Greater Manchester.

Your Responsibilities as a Platform Engineer:

• Build internal platforms and paved paths that abstract complexity and enable teams to deploy, operate, and monitor their services independently
• Codify infrastructure using tools like Terraform or Pulumi to ensure consistency, repeatability, and auditability across environments
• Develop and maintain developer tooling and golden templates (CI/CD pipelines, scaffolds, environments) to standardize best practices across teams
• Design and implement observability frameworks (metrics, tracing, logging, alerting) that are easy to consume and part of the platform baseline
• Eliminate repetitive tasks through automation and opinionated defaults, so teams are not blocked by manual requests or low-level details
• Collaborate with engineers to understand common pain points and continuously improve platform usability, reliability, and documentation
• Embed security and compliance into platform tooling and workflows so that teams adopt safe patterns by default not by exception

Your Skills & Experience as a Platform Engineer:

• Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Proficient in scripting or programming (Python, Go, Bash, etc.)

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

• Familiarity with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, etc.)

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation)

• Knowledge of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, Datadog, etc.).

• Solid grasp of Linux systems and networking fundamentals

• Strong problem-solving and debugging skills

Your Package & Perks:

• A competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• 32 days holiday, (pro rata, including public Holidays) plus the opportunity to earn up to an extra 13 days holiday each year
• Enhanced Pension Contribution
• Healthcare Insurance (including dental)
• Wellbeing support
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Free secure parking
• Onsite electric car charging points
• Informal dress code
• Paid breaks, with free hot premium drinks

We re Innovative

Trading for over 30 years here at Innovative Technology, where we now have offices on five continents and employ around 400 people, with over 150 based from our state-of-the-art R&D hub.

From self-service checkouts to arcade machines, we provide our retail, banking, kiosk, vending, gaming and amusement customers with products and services that help them securely accept automated payments, with our industry-leading technology keeping us at the forefront of our sector. We also provide facial analysis technology for age estimation and control access for some of the world s leading companies.

By being true to our values of Innovation, Collaboration, Respect and Drive we ve seen significant growth and won numerous domestic and international awards, whilst offering outstanding career opportunities and great benefits. You ll find us on the edge of the Pennines and less than half an hour from central Manchester, with modern offices, free parking and excellent transport links.

We are a disability-confident employer, as such we will shortlist all candidates meeting our minimum criteria (as specified in the job description) who state they have a disability within their application.

What s next?

If you re an experienced Platform Engineer and want to join our award-winning team working on the latest cutting-edge technology, we want to hear from you.

A better way Through our people, drive and commitment we push boundaries to deliver innovative products and services.