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

Lorien; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Private healthcare

Recognition rewards

Professional development

Upskilling opportunities

Hybrid working

Job summary

Lorien is seeking a Platform Engineer to drive infrastructure automation from Edinburgh or Glasgow. The role focuses on shifting to a platform model with self-serve tooling, shared services, and strong standards. You’ll work on IaC, cloud automation, and end-to-end platform ownership in a hybrid setting.

You’ll join a team valuing senior engineers, with room to grow into larger ownership. The office mix is hybrid, with two days per week in the central Edinburgh or Glasgow office, and a path to

Qualifications

• Terraform/Terraform Cloud experience required.
• Hands-on production cloud experience (Azure DevOps); cross over to AWS/GCP ok.
• Proficient with Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Solid cloud networking and identity concepts (VNet, DNS, access control).
• Experience with testing, change processes, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Split time between hands-on build work and collaborating with dependent teams.
• Own platform work end-to-end from build through testing, docs, and handover.
• Define done criteria, testing, rollback, and knowledge transfer requirements.
• Develop and maintain cloud pipelines and automation using IaC and scripting.
• Create reusable templates, modules, and runbooks for others to reuse.
• Contribute to design discussions and code reviews, mentoring peers.
• Identify risks and dependencies early, offering options rather than problems.
• Keep documentation updated for future maintainers.

Skills

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

Azure DevOps

Public Cloud

CI/CD Pipelines

Git

Scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Security & Compliance

Networking & IAM

Tools

Terraform tooling

CI/CD Tools

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
• 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