Senior Platform Engineer

Octopus Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus

Pension and share incentive plan

Flexible working

Wellness hub benefits

Private medical insurance

Life insurance

Electric vehicle leasing

Overseas work option

Job summary

Octopus Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enable safe, reliable, and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment. You will own CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and engineering platform support across multiple teams.

You will work closely with Engineering, AI, and SecOps to raise standards for security, quality, and operational control while shaping cloud architecture and reusable tooling across the org.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or similar role.
• Experience building, running, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.
• Strong experience working with Azure cloud services.
• Experience using Git-based source control, branching strategies, and version control practices.
• Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts.
• Good understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerting, and operational visibility.
• Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including scripting, file handling, text processing, system administration, and process management.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and Cosmos DB.
• Experience of Terraform and the ability to create and maintain reusable modules.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams.
• Lead software deployment, release automation, and environment management in Azure.
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, including Terraform modules where appropriate.
• Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs.
• Support the PSS team when needed on platform, deployment, and operational issues within DevOps scope.
• Lead, support, and drive the further development, rollout, and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), helping shape shared tooling, templates, and engineering standards across teams.
• Monitor platform health, identify issues early, and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope.
• Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes.
• Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope, identify root cause, and drive resolution and improvement actions.
• Track release dates, gather feedback from technical leads, and help ensure deployments are smooth, secure, and automated with appropriate approval checks.

Skills

DevOps

Platform engineering

Cloud engineering

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

Bash

PowerShell

Linux

Observability

Databases

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Terraform

Job description

At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.

About the Role

Team Overview

The DevOps team sits within Engineering and will consist of two DevOps Engineers in total andis responsible forsupporting secure, reliable, and scalable engineering delivery across the business.

The team supports four development teams as well as the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs. It also works closely with the Infrastructure and SecOps teams tomaintainservices, improve operational resilience, and ensure engineering environmentsremainsecure, stable, and effective.

Job Overview

The Senior Platform Engineer playsan important rolewithin the Engineering team and the wider business by enabling safe, reliable, and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment. This role is central to the ongoing operation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and engineering platform support.

The role works closely with peers in Engineering, technical leads, solution architects, test managers, the AI team, Infrastructure, and SecOps. It is important to both day-to-day delivery and longer-term improvement of engineering practices, helping teams release software more effectively whilemaintainingstrong standards for security, quality, operational control, and cloud architecture.

Responsibilities

Build,maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams.

Lead software deployment, release automation, and environment management in Azure.

Design, build, andmaintaininfrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, including Terraform modules whereappropriate.

Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs.

Support the PSS team when needed on platform, deployment, and operational issues within DevOps scope.

Lead, support, and drive the further development, rollout, and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), helping shape shared tooling, templates, and engineering standards across teams.

Monitor platform health,identifyissues early, and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope.

Prepare anddemonstratecloud architectural designs fornew resourcesand platform changes.

Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope,identifyroot cause, and drive resolution and improvement actions.

Track release dates, gather feedback from technical leads, and help ensure deployments are smooth, secure, and automated withappropriate approvalchecks.

Qualifications

Essential Qualifications

Strong commercial experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or similar role.

Experience building, running, andmaintainingCI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.

Strong experience working with Azure cloud services.

Experience using Git-based source control, branching strategies, and version control practices.

Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts.

Good understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerting, and operational visibility.

Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including scripting, file handling, text processing, system administration, and process management.

Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and Cosmos DB.

Experience of Terraform and the ability to create andmaintainreusable modules.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.

Experience with Docker or container-based delivery models.

Experience supporting AI or data-focused teams with deployment and infrastructure.

What we offer

A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan
Take what you need holiday
Flexible working
Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Sanctus, Parent Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more
Enhanced family leave policies
Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
Private medical insurance for you and your family
Electric vehicle leasing
The option to work overseas up to a month per year

Our Values
At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does. That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.

We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority. By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds. We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process. Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process. If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.