Platform Engineer: Cloud Infra & CI/CD Champion

Waystone; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Waystone is seeking a Platform Engineer to scale its engineering platform, building scalable Azure-focused infrastructure with IaC, CI/CD automation and strong security governance. The role supports cross-functional teams and requires on‑call participation.

You will contribute to observability, disaster recovery and cost-efficient patterns while collaborating with delivery teams in a hybrid Leeds-based setup, with monthly office presence.

Qualifications

• University degree or equivalent practical experience and 3+ years in Platform/Cloud/DevOps roles.
• Strong design/implementation experience in Azure and AWS.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC expertise with repeatable environments.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, or Azure DevOps.
• Windows OS management plus solid Linux fundamentals; scripting with PowerShell.
• Knowledge of cloud security, IAM (Entra ID), and network controls.
• Experience collaborating with development teams in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Owns moderately complex platform work and delivers against project goals.
• Design and maintain scalable cloud patterns and reusable Terraform modules (Azure focus).
• Develop IaC libraries for consistent, compliant environments across clouds.
• Build CI/CD and deployment automation with GitHub Actions, Octopus, ArgoCD; use Ansible for config mgmt.
• Support delivery teams by provisioning autonomous environments and reducing friction.
• Provide ops support for AKS and containerised workloads; ensure high availability.
• Lifecycle tasks: patching, upgrades, scaling, decommissioning across Windows and Linux.
• Promote cloud governance, security standards and continuous compliance evidence.
• Contribute to observability, incident response and on-call improvements.
• Document infra blueprints and SOPs in Confluence and our Platform Portal.

Skills

Azure

AWS

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

ArgoCD

Ansible

PowerShell

Linux basics

Windows OS

IAM Entra ID

CI/CD pipelines

Jira Confluence

Kubernetes AKS

OCI

AI tooling

Education

University degree

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Octopus Deploy

ArgoCD

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

OCI

Job description

Waystone is seeking a Platform Engineer to scale its engineering platform, building scalable Azure-focused infrastructure with IaC, CI/CD automation and strong security governance. The role supports cross-functional teams and requires on‑call participation.

You will contribute to observability, disaster recovery and cost-efficient patterns while collaborating with delivery teams in a hybrid Leeds-based setup, with monthly office presence.