Platform Engineer

Ronald James Group; North East; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency seeks a skilled Platform Engineer for a fast-growing tech company in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The role involves designing secure infrastructure, enhancing CI/CD pipelines, and working within a collaborative engineering culture. Candidates should be passionate about technology and have experience with cloud services and automation tools to enable rapid deployment of applications.

Qualifications

• Mid-Senior level role with expertise in infrastructure and automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and cloud architecture required.
• Good understanding of security practices in DevSecOps.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platform services and infrastructure.
• Improve system reliability and observability.
• Champion security best practices across development workflows.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

AWS

CI/CD

Linux

Bash/shell scripting

Git

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Argo

ELK

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Co-Founder | Ronald James Group | The North East’s most recommended Digital & Tech Recruitment Agency

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with a passion for infrastructure, automation, and building internal platforms that empower developers to ship quickly, securely, and reliably? We’re working with a fast-growing, technology-led company looking to strengthen their platform engineering function with a skilled and motivated engineer.

In this role, you’ll be at the heart of designing and maintaining scalable infrastructure and internal tooling that forms the backbone of the company’s cloud-native applications. You'll be instrumental in evolving their CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, cloud architecture and much more – all within a highly collaborative, engineering-first culture.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Design, build, and maintain platform services and infrastructure that support multiple product teams.
• Improve system reliability, observability, and scalability.
• Evolve CI/CD pipelines to accelerate safe software delivery.
• Build tools and automation to enable self-service deployment and infrastructure provisioning.
• Champion security best practices across infrastructure and development workflows.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and security teams.
• Support production systems through on-call rotation and proactive issue resolution.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform
• Cloud: AWS
• CI/CD: Argo
• Logging: ELK or LGTM stack
• Scripting & Systems: Linux, Bash/shell scripting
• Version Control: Git
• Security: Strong awareness of security principles and DevSecOps best practices

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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