Platform Engineer

Renault Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration package

Private medical healthcare

Company pension scheme

Car scheme

Flexible/hybrid working arrangements

Free gym

Subsidised restaurant

Holiday buy-back scheme

Job summary

Renault Group, home to Alpine F1 Team, seeks a Platform Engineer at its Enstone, UK headquarters. You will own infrastructure, tooling, and delivery pipelines across cloud and on‑prem environments, enabling software and AI workloads for car development and race operations.

You will design and implement infrastructure as code, CI/CD, and observability strategies, collaborating with software and AI engineers to improve developer experience and reliability. Hybrid working options are available.

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Hands-on with Docker and Kubernetes and GitOps workflows.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate tasks.

Responsibilities

• Write and maintain infrastructure as code across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for fast, reliable deployments.
• Improve observability with logs, metrics, and traces, and support incident response.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTofu

Terraform

Ansible

Flux

ArgoCD

Job description

Company ALPINE RACING LIMITED 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

The Platform team includes Platform Engineers and Data Engineers — covering infrastructure, delivery tooling, and the data pipelines that feed both our software products and AI capabilities. You'll work alongside both, across the breadth of platform engineering rather than specialising in a single domain. The role carries real ownership — you'll have a direct hand in the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that the rest of engineering depends on every day. The teams you serve include Software Engineers building the applications that support car development and race operations, and AI Engineers pushing the boundaries of what we can extract from our data. Your platform makes their work possible.

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

• competitive remuneration package
• private medical healthcare
• a company pension scheme
• a car scheme
• flexible working opportunities including hybrid arrangements
• a free gym
• subsidised restaurant
• a holiday buy-back scheme

Applicants must have permanent right to work in the UK.

Job Family Information Technologies & Systems

Renault Group is committed to creating an inclusive working environment and the conditions for each of us to bring their passion, perform to the full and grow, whilst being themselves. We find strength in our diversity and we are engaged to ensure equal employment opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, etc.

BWT Alpine Formula One Team competes in the FIA Formula One World Championship with Grand Prix winner Pierre Gasly and rising star Franco Colapinto. The two drivers, under the leadership of Executive Advisor Flavio Briatore and Managing Director Steve Nielsen and piloting the revolutionary Alpine A526, are driving forward the team's charge during a highly competitive Formula One season. The team operates out of its Enstone factory in Oxfordshire, United Kingdom, where it has been based since 1992, in its previous guises as Benetton Formula, Renault F1 Team and Lotus F1 Team. Enstone has a winning legacy with seven Formula One World Championships including the Drivers’ World Championship [1994, 1995, 2005 and 2006] with Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso, and the Constructors’ World Championship [1995, 2005 and 2006]. The team’s 2026 car, the A526, is designed and built on‑site with the 1000‑strong workforce working hard towards the new opportunities presented in the 24‑race season.

For more information, please head to www.alpinef1.com

Alpine, a brand born from racing Alpine’s history dates back to 1955 when Jean Rédélé, a young man passionate about competition, formed the automotive brand. Fast forward nearly 70 years, and Alpine is now at the forefront of motor racing, competing alongside the elite in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship and the World Endurance Championship as well as many other motorsport disciplines. The original A110 road car was introduced in 1962 and, by the early 1970s, Alpine was a major force in topflight rally competition. In 1971, Alpine took the three steps on the podium of the world-famous Rallye Monte Carlo for the first time and later again in 1973. The company went on to win the World Rally Championship Manufacturers’ title later that year. Alpine achieved one of its most famous motorsport triumphs in 1978; overall victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Filled with this racing passion and savoir-faire, the brand continued to release the new and innovative road cars throughout the 70s and 80s, including the A310 V6 and the GTA. As soon as Alpine's relaunch in 2012 was announced, a competition programme was born to develop the brand's awareness. This commitment was underlined in endurance racing, which has enjoyed numerous successes on international circuits. Fast forward to 2021 and Alpine took its very first steps into the elite realms of Formula 1, after Luca de Meo announced the company’s decision to enter the series as the rebranded Alpine F1 Team. In 2024, the brand is reiterating its commitment to Formula 1, Endurance, Rally, Cup, GT and the SimRacing sphere through Esports. A busy calendar for 2024, punctuated by the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, the World Endurance Championship, the FFSA GT4 European Series, FFSA Championnat de France GT, the Championnat de France FFSA des Rallyes, but also by customer competitions organised by the brand, such as the Alpine Elf Rally Trophy on the road and the Alpine Elf Europa Cup on the track.