Platform Engineer

applied works; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days + holidays

Hybrid working

Life assurance (4x base salary)

Pension plan participation

Private medical insurance

Electric car salary sacrifice scheme

Flexible working policies

Job summary

Motion Applied are seeking a Platform Engineer to guide and foster innovation by developing the CI platform for leading-edge products. You will work with cross-functional teams to build secure, scalable, and standardised infrastructure and internal developer platforms.

You will contribute to implementing security governance, leveraging open‑source solutions, and ensuring best practices across the software lifecycle in a hybrid Woking office.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years with large cloud providers; AWS preferred.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, SaltStack).
• 3+ years with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, C/C++, Java, or Rust.
• Solid DevOps, CI/CD, and Git usage.
• Willingness to learn additional languages as needed.
• Experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• English proficiency, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Lead on implementing Motion Applied security governance across products and platform.
• Build and improve Motion Applied Fleet Connect cloud infrastructure.
• Leverage open-source software to extend capabilities for customers.
• Champion architectural and technical good practice across teams.

Skills

Cloud experience

Go / Python / C/C++ / Java

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

English fluency

Observability tooling

Networking concepts

Learning new languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

SaltStack

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Git

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

AWS

Job description

Background

At Motion Applied – Connected Intelligence (CI), we create cutting edge wireless connectivity solutions that are transforming customer experience across the transport industry. We create solutions that drive efficiency and cost-effectiveness for customers, delivering unrivalled internet connectivity services.

Purpose of the Role

You will be one of our key contributors who guide and foster innovation by developing the platform for our leading-edge products within CI.

You will work collaboratively to solve interesting and challenging problems in a cross functional team with other engineering disciplines including Data Scientists, Software Engineers, Test Engineers, Site Reliability Engineers and Systems Engineers.

The platform team is missioned to build secure, compliant and standardised infrastructure as well as internal developer platforms to enhance operational efficiency and enable faster and reliable software delivery. In this team you'll have a unique opportunity to have first‑hand exposure to the strategy of the company in key platform initiatives, especially in building scalable and secure-by-design systems and solutions.

You also have opportunities to go through the whole lifecycle of platform, products and services, are encouraged to participate in each phase, each part of the projects and have the whole picture of what you are working on.

Principal Accountabilities

As a Platform Engineer who is passionate about technology, you will use the most effective and applicable technologies to create and improve the Motion Applied Fleet Connect cloud infrastructure.

You will lead on implementation of the Motion Applied security governance policy across our products and platform, be a key participant in maintaining and updating the policy in accordance with technology shifts, customer feedback and product development feedback.

You will learn how to leverage existing open‑source software to extend our capabilities, integrating and tailoring software to suit customers’ needs, through clean and consistent coding.

You will champion architectural and technical good practice across the software development teams, from initiation through the whole product lifecycle.

Location

This role is based at our head office in central Woking. The role is included in our hybrid working policy with the expectation of a minimum of two days a week in the office, which should be co‑ordinated with other members of the Engineering team.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
• 3+ years of hands on experience with large cloud providers; AWS preferred, other cloud experience considered.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or SaltStack.
• 3+ years of hands‑on experience with containerization and orchestration tools like Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Excellent programming, debugging, and optimization skills in general purpose programming languages including but not limited to: Go, Python, C/C++, Java, or Rust.
• Solid understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and version control e.g. Git.
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring tools e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK etc.
• Ability to write and speak in English fluently.

Desirable & Development Areas

Some of the below would be beneficial to the applicant, but opportunities to develop in these areas will also be provided:

• Experienced working in and developing for a Linux environment.
• Experience with Helmfile or similar declarative deployment tooling.
• Experience with multi‑tenanted architecture patterns, tenant isolation, per‑customer resource boundaries and shared‑vs‑dedicated service design.
• Experience with identity providers and authentication flows, including OIDC, OAuth 2.0, or platforms such as Auth0.
• Knowledge in cyber security, including but not limited to threat intelligence, IAM, key management systems, data security, application security, applied cryptography, certificate management.
• Experience of IoT systems integration, protocols, and services, including MQTT and AWS IoT Core.
• Experience in troubleshooting incidents and live environments.
• Networking concepts and network performance modelling / optimisation.
• Understand the basic concepts of AI agent automation and orchestration.
• Experience with Hashicorp tools like Vault or Consul.

What we can offer you

In return for everything you bring to the table, we can ensure an exciting, challenging role in a dynamic business surrounded by some of the best people in their respective fields.

At Motion Applied we firmly believe it’s the relationships and friendships we create while working that make us special. We’re also aware that the world is changing and we are part of that change. We all want and need different things from our work and home lives, so, if you have commitments outside of work, we’re open to talking through flexible working options that work for you and us.

• Annual leave (25 days + bank holidays, pro‑rated for part time colleagues).
• Enhanced Company Maternity, Paternity and Adoption leave and pay.
• Flexible working policies, including Hybrid Working.
• Life assurance to the value of 4 times base salary.
• Opportunity to join the Motion Applied Pension Plan.
• Company funded individual private healthcare with the opportunity to extend to partner or spouse and/or dependents at a discounted rate.
• Electric car scheme – opportunity to drive a brand‑new car in a more affordable way through this salary sacrifice scheme. Employees are eligible to join the scheme after successful completion of their probationary period.

Who we are

Motion Applied are a medium‑sized tech firm spun out of McLaren Group. We’re looking for people who will thrive in a non‑hierarchical, growth‑oriented company, self‑starters who are flexible and somewhat entrepreneurial in their approach.

Motion Applied are committed to Diversity, Equality and Inclusion (DEI) and promote DEI in all we do.