Platform Engineer - Terraform - Glasgow/Edinburgh Hybrid - 65K

Lorien; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Hybrid work

Private healthcare

Recognition rewards

Professional development

Upskilling avenues

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a Platform Engineer in the Glasgow/Edinburgh hybrid with a Terraform focus to automate and improve cloud infrastructure. You will join a team turning manual infrastructure work into self-serve, reliable platforms that other engineering teams can use with minimal hand-holding.

The role emphasizes IaC, cloud tooling, and collaboration with senior engineers to shape the platform model while offering growth and upskilling opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven IaC experience with Terraform.
• Hands-on production workloads in a major public cloud (Azure/AWS/GCP).
• Proficient with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Split time between hands-on build work and platform collaboration with product engineering, operations, security and compliance.
• Own platform work end-to-end from build to testing, documentation and handover.
• Define done criteria, tests, rollback plans and operational handover.
• Develop and maintain pipelines and automation for cloud-based SaaS environments using IaC, DevOps pipelines, configuration automation and scripting.
• Create reusable templates, modules and runbooks for wide reuse.
• Engage in design discussions and code reviews; mentor others.
• Highlight risks and dependencies early with proposed options.
• Keep documentation current for future teams.

Skills

Terraform

Azure/AWS/GCP cloud

Git & CI/CD

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)

Cloud networking

Infrastructure as code

Change management & testing

Communication & collaboration

Tools

Terraform Cloud

Azure DevOps

Git

Job description

Platform Engineer - Terraform - Glasgow / Edinburgh Hybrid - 65K plus Bonus

Hybrid - Around 2 days per week in either their Central Edinburgh or Central Glasgow office (whichever's best for you)

About the Role

Lorien's longstanding client (who craft key data-oriented solutions to reduce time and headaches on their customers' side) is looking for a Platform Engineer based in Edinburgh or Glasgow who enjoys turning manual, repetitive infrastructure work into something automated, reliable, and easy for other teams to use.

Historically, most of the tooling built here has been used internally by the operations side of the business. That is changing. The direction now is towards a proper platform model: shared services, well-defined boundaries, and self-serve tools that other engineering teams can pick up and use without needing hand-holding. You would be joining at a good moment to help shape that shift, working on real infrastructure problems alongside people who already have strong standards and patterns in place.

This suits someone who wants to get deeper into cloud infrastructure, automation, and the \"everything as code\" way of working, without having to invent the playbook from scratch. There's an established way of doing things here, senior people to learn from, and genuine room to grow into bigger pieces of ownership.

They're a growing firm with great projects in the pipeline, happy to offer a range of incentives including bonuses, hybrid working, private healthcare, recognition rewards, professional development and ongoing upskilling avenues, and friendly people to work with (ask us, we've placed many of them ourselves over the years)

Main Responsibilities

• Splitting your time between hands-on build work and building good relationships with the teams who depend on the platform, including product engineering, operations, security, and compliance.


• Taking on well-defined chunks of platform work and owning them end to end, from build through to testing, documentation, and handover, rather than just writing code and moving on.


• Agreeing what \"done\" looks like before you start, including how it will be tested, how it can be rolled back, and what the team needs to know to support it afterwards.


• Writing and maintaining the pipelines and automation that keep cloud-based SaaS environments running smoothly, using infrastructure-as-code tools, DevOps pipelines, configuration automation, and scripting to cut down on manual effort.


• Building things that other people can reuse; templates, modules, and runbooks, rather than one-off fixes that only work once.


• Getting involved in design conversations and code reviews, learning from more experienced engineers, and passing on what you pick up to the rest of the team.


• Flagging risks, unknowns, and dependencies as early as possible, and coming with options rather than just problems.


• Keeping documentation current so that the next person (including future you) isn't left guessing.

Knowledge & Skills

• Practical experience with IaC (infrastructure as code) - Terraform / Terraform Cloud is a must-have


• Real, hands-on experience running production workloads in a major public cloud environment (this role is Azure / Azure DevOps based, but they are open to folk crossing over from AWS / GCP backgrounds)


• Comfortable working with Git-based version control and CI/CD pipelines, including code review and pull request workflows


• Able to automate and script using tools such as PowerShell, Bash, or Python


• A solid grasp of cloud networking and identity concepts, such as virtual networks, private connectivity, DNS, and access control


• Experience testing your own changes properly and working within a formal change process


• Able to put together the evidence needed to release safely, such as test results, rollback plans, and handovers


• Confident contributing ideas into technical designs, not just implementing someone else's, and even challenging where better options are available


• Clear written and verbal communicator, especially around progress, risk, and blockers


• Comfortable using AI-assisted development tools responsibly, understanding their limits and checking their output

Desirable:

• Exposure to internal developer platforms / self-service tooling


• Interest in or experience with AI-assisted engineering beyond basic code suggestions


• Familiarity with configuration management tools and some exposure to monitoring, alerting, or incident response


• Awareness of security and compliance basics


• Experience with different cloud hosting models, whether that's managed database services, containers, or orchestration platforms

If you're looking to join a company that values its people, offers real career and technical growth, and works on impactful solutions used the world-over,