Platform Engineer in Bridgend

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

Job summary

A growing technology company based in South Wales is looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join their core production team. This role involves ensuring system resilience, working with technologies like Terraform and Ansible, and leading projects. The successful candidate will thrive in a fast-paced environment and has ideally 5+ years of relevant experience. Competitive salary and hybrid working options are available, making this an exciting opportunity to contribute to ambitious growth plans.

Benefits

28 days annual leave increasing with service

New office equipment such as MacBook

Flexi time working structure

Cycle to work scheme

Qualifications

• At least 5+ years experience within platform/devops/infrastructure focused role.
• Strong virtual environment skills required.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Terraform and Ansible necessary.
• Strong experience with Linux servers and databases like MySQL.

Responsibilities

• Run the largest systems within the UK industry.
• Ensure resilience through disaster recovery and backup processes.
• Mentor junior engineers and lead projects.

Skills

Platform/DevOps/Infrastructure Experience

Virtual Environment Skills (Proxmox or similar)

CI/CD Pipeline Experience

Terraform Knowledge

Ansible Knowledge

Linux Server Experience

Database Experience (MySQL)

Project Leadership or Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Proxmox

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. This is a challenging environment but one that will give engineers somewhere to grow and thrive!

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 (phone number removed) 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.