Platform Engineer

Care Quality Commission; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

The Care Quality Commission is looking for a Platform Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure, ensuring it is secure and efficient. In this home-based role, you will collaborate with teams to automate processes and innovate solutions, supporting the mission to improve health and care services.

Benefits

27 days of leave per year

Free access to Headspace meditation app

NHS pension scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Sports and gym discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure and automation.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices.
• Problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve cloud infrastructure.
• Collaborate across teams on digital services.
• Investigate alerts and troubleshoot problems.

Skills

Azure

Automation

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

YML

Job description

Grade C: £32,471 (National Framework) or £38,143 (LondonFramework – if you are London office based or homebased and live within theboundary of the M25) – There is also an additional homeworking allowance of £581per annum for those working from home.

ContractedHours: Full time 37 hoursper week.

ContractType: Permanent

Location: Home-based

ClosingDate: 29 July 2025 at11.59pm

Make adifference

Every role at CQCcontributes to our mission. If you’re looking for a new role in Technology thatgives a true sense of meaning and purpose, then you’ve found it! As a PlatformEngineer, you’ll help ensure our cloud infrastructure is secure, efficient, andreliable - supporting the systems that underpin our work to improve health andcare services.

Picture this

Imagine being theperson who spots a critical issue in our cloud environment and fixes it beforeit impacts our users - your work keeps our systems running and our mission ontrack. In the last year workingfor CQC as a Platform Engineer, you might have automated a key deploymentprocess using Infrastructure as Code, saving hours of manual work each week. Youmight have alsoimplemented monitoring improvements that helped detect and resolve performanceissues in our Azure environment.

The role

You’ll be key in helping us deliver our work. In this role, you’ll:

•Maintain and improve cloud infrastructure: Support and enhance our Azure and Dynamics 365 systems using automation and Infrastructure as Code.
•Collaborate across teams: Work closely with DevOps and Software Engineering to deploy, monitor, and improve our digital services.
•Respond to issues and innovate: Investigate alerts, troubleshoot problems, and contribute to continuous improvement of our systems and processes

What we can offer you...

Your health and wellbeing are important to us and are supported through our benefits scheme:
• 27 days of leave per year, rising to 32.5 days with length of service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Opportunities and support for in house and external training and development.
• Free, unlimited access to Headspace meditation app.
• Sports and gym discounts.
• Free employee assistance service 24 hours a day.
• NHS pension scheme, with around a 14% employer contribution.
• Discounts to high street stores, supermarkets, restaurants and more.
• Eligibility to apply for a Blue Light Card, which cost £4.99 and are valid for 2 years.
• Fleet home electronics and car leasing salary sacrifice scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme up to the value of £5,000.
• Internal reward scheme where you could win a voucher or two!

We want to makeworking for CQC a great experience for everyone, and to role model a diverseand representative culture. To support an inclusive environment wherecolleagues feel empowered to bring their whole self to work, we support avariety of staff networks, including the Race Equality Network, LGBT+ EqualityNetwork, Carers Equality Network, Disability Equality Network and GenderEquality network.

Show us

We will be looking for specific skills, knowledge and experience in your application form:

•Experience with Azure and automation: Show how you’ve supported or improved cloud infrastructure using tools like Terraform, PowerShell, or YML.
•Knowledge of DevOps practices: Demonstrate your experience with CI/CD pipelines, version control, and Agile or DevOps environments.
•Problem-solving and collaboration: Share examples of how you’ve worked with others to identify and resolve technical issues or improve system performance.

Individual Adjustments…

We are committed to beingopen and transparent around our processes and we endeavour to offer everycandidate the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitmentprocess. We seek to support candidates to identify potential challenges and workwith them to identify and facilitate individual adjustments as appropriate.

Should you require assistance and/or would like to request an adjustment at anystage of the recruitment process, please contact a member of the team viaemail:[e-mail].

To progress your application, you’ll need to provide evidence of your right towork in the UK. Without valid right to work you won’t be eligible for therole.We are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.Someroles may also be subject to a satisfactory DBS check.

Next steps

If you apply, you’ll need to create a profile and complete an online application form.Your application will be completely anonymous.Please see ourinformation for applicantsfor more details on the process.We contact every applicantto let them know the outcome of their application, so you will hear from us whether or not you are shortlisted.

You can read the full details of the role in theJob Description

If you’d like an informal chat about the role contact – Shuaib Butt; Deputy Director of Engineering ; [e-mail] For general enquiries, please [e-mail].

The Benefits

Weoffer a wide range ofbenefits, including:

• Annual leave starting at 27 days per year, rising to 32.5 days with service, plus bank holidays (usually 8 days per year).
• Training and development opportunities.
• Wellbeing initiatives, such as gym discounts and meditation.
• NHS pension scheme, with around 14% employer contribution.
• Discount schemes (including eligibility for a Blue Light card, at a cost of £4.99 and valid for 2 years), reward vouchers, car leasing and more!

Please see ourbenefitspage for the full list.

Equity for all

We know job descriptions can feel intimidating. Research shows they can cause some people to doubt whether they’re a good fit. This happens more often to people from underrepresented groups (e.g. ethnic minority backgrounds).If this role interests you, we encourage you to apply.Your unique perspective, skills, and experience could be exactly what we need.

We want every candidate to feel supported and able to do their best. If you need adjustments to our process,we’ll work with you to remove any barriers. Visit ouraccessibility pagefor more on this. If you’d like to chat, please [e-mail]. Please note, if you have previously informed us of adjustments you need for interview or within your role these are not carried over and must be discussed for each individual application you make.

We promote a workplace wherefairness, respect and inclusion are a priority. Diverse teams make our work better, help us deliver our mission and make our culture stronger. See ourED&I pagefor more about this.
We welcomeapplications fromeveryone,and colleagues can find supportand community among our many employee networks. This includes people of any:

• Age
• Sex
• Gender identity or expression
• Sexual orientation
• Religion or belief
• Ethnicity
• Disability

A Note on AI
AI tools can be great for research and refining ideas, but we want to learn about you. If you use AI or Chatbots to help you with your application, keep these points in mind:

• AI can support research, structuring and refining your writing, but your applicationmustreflectyour real skills and experience.Spell-checking and condensing word counts are great ways to use AI effectively.
• Do notcopy and paste AI generated answers. These will not help you stand out; remember we want to hear about your skills and experience.
• Providing false and insincere examples goes against our core values of honesty and integrity andmay lead to your application being withdrawnor termination of your employment.

Values and vision
We are guided by ourcore values, which shape our work and our culture.
Excellence– being a high-performing organisation.
Caring– treating everyone with dignity and respect.
Integrity– doing the right thing.
Teamwork– learning from each other to be the best we can.
We are a disability confident employer and a carer confident employer.