Platform Engineer

IntaPeople Limited; Wales; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in South Wales is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to enhance their platforms while embedding DevOps principles. The role offers a competitive salary ranging from £55,000 to £62,500, along with benefits like flexible working hours and 28 days annual leave. Join a fast-paced environment where you can make a significant impact in a scaling business.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

New office equipment

Flexible working hours

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in platform/devops/infrastructure role.
• Strong skills in virtual environments like Proxmox.
• Experience with CI/CD, Terraform, and Ansible workflows.

Responsibilities

• Shape how platforms scale and ensure resilience.
• Embed DevOps principles across the business.
• Manage largest systems within the UK industry.

Skills

Platform/DevOps/Infrastructure experience

Virtual environment skills (Proxmox or similar)

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Linux servers

MySQL database experience

Project leadership or mentoring skills

Job description

IntaPeople are currently representing a client based in South Wales who due to a substantial amount of growth now require an experienced Platform Engineer join their core production team. This role is about shaping how their platforms scale, ensuring resilience, and embedding DevOps principles across the business using tools of Terraform/Ansible frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and infrastructure design.

The Platform Engineer will be responsible for running their largest systems within their industry in the UK and having recently launched in the USA, they now are building within this resource area. Their an on-premise first business of which 99% of their workload-intensive applications run on Proxmox which requires robust on-prem operations with hybrid cloud integrations.

For the right engineer, this is an opportunity to make a major impact in a scaling, founder-led business with a track record of continuous product development and an ambitious growth plan.

Resilience: Disaster recovery, backups, and replication across multiple data layers are constant priorities.

Extreme velocity: They push code to production up to 4 times per day, running fast and breaking things, but aiming to remain online as much as possible.

We are looking for:

• At least 5+ years experience within platform/devops/infrastructure focussed role
• Strong virtual environment skills (proxmox or similar)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible
• Experience with Servers – Linux etc
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL
• Senior Engineers who have the ability to take the lead on projects or mentor juniors when needed

This organisation is a self-funded, profitable business that has set strong growth plans for 2026. They are investing heavily within their own software and infrastructure platforms. This is an excellent time to join the team right now as you will play a pivotal role in shaping how that growth is supported.

The IT Director has described the environment as fast paced, but highly rewarding. They push code multiple times a day as things move quickly.

Role overview

• Platform Engineer
• Bridgend / Hybrid (2-3days per week)
• Salary £55,000 - £62,500 depending on experience
• 28days annual leave (inc. BH) increasing with length of service
• New office equipment such as Macbook etc
• Flexi time working structure
• Cycle to work scheme

For more information please contact Nathan Handley on 02920 252 500 or click APPLY now to be considered.

Please note, we can provide sponsorship to candidates who are already living and working within the UK and have an established based within a commutable distance of the office.