Senior Platform Eng & DevOps Leader — CI/CD, Kubernetes

Anaplan; Manchester; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Anaplan in Manchester is seeking a Senior Platform Enablement / DevOps Engineer to design, scale, and evolve our enterprise developer platform and cloud-native delivery ecosystem. You will lead CI/CD modernization, multi-cloud deployments, and engineering enablement across teams.

The role requires hands-on expertise with Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, plus strong leadership and collaboration skills to drive reliability and security improvements.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or related roles.

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and evolve scalable platform engineering and DevOps solutions for enterprise engineering teams.
• Lead the design and implementation of modern CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Jenkins, Kargo, ArgoCD, GitHub, and related tooling.
• Drive platform standardization, automation, reliability, and self-service engineering capabilities.
• Design and manage scalable Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
• Lead Kubernetes platform architecture, Helm-based deployments, and container orchestration best practices.
• Establish observability standards and operational excellence using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and related tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, cloud, and architecture teams to improve platform capabilities and developer workflows.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering best practices, governance, and technical strategy.
• Lead incident response, reliability improvements, root cause analysis, and operational maturity initiatives.
• Improve platform security, scalability, resiliency, and deployment efficiency across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tooling, and automation opportunities aligned with platform engineering goals.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

Cloud Engineering

CI/CD design

GitOps

Multi-cloud

Linux internals

Python

Kotlin

Bash

Gradle

Poetry

OpenTelemetry

Tools

Jenkins

Kargo

ArgoCD

GitHub Enterprise

Terraform

Terraform Enterprise

Kubernetes

Helm

Docker

Grafana

Loki

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

UV

Job description

Anaplan in Manchester is seeking a Senior Platform Enablement / DevOps Engineer to design, scale, and evolve our enterprise developer platform and cloud-native delivery ecosystem. You will lead CI/CD modernization, multi-cloud deployments, and engineering enablement across teams.

The role requires hands-on expertise with Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tooling, plus strong leadership and collaboration skills to drive reliability and security improvements.