Senior Platform Engineer

N BROWN; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital retailer in Manchester seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to drive cloud infrastructure and support a financial services platform. The ideal candidate has strong skills in AWS, Terraform, and DevOps methodologies. This role offers flexible working conditions, competitive benefits, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays)

Annual bonus scheme

Enhanced maternity leave

Company pension with up to 8% contribution

Mental health support

Colleague discount

Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance

Paid volunteer time

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS services like API Gateway, Lambdas, S3.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-based infrastructure.
• Provide automation and tooling support to squads.
• Implement infrastructure monitoring and alerting.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Continuous Integration

Docker

Grafana

IAM

Puppet

Python

Jira

DevOps methodology

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Fintech team here at N Brown. As a member of the Castle project team, you'll be at the heart of a unique and exciting venture to assemble a new financial services platform.

As a Senior AWS Platform Engineer you'll drive scalable cloud-based infrastructure and deliver innovative support with robust automation and monitoring systems, while collaborating to design secure, resilient architectures. You'll tackle complex problems and share expertise to elevate our engineering team at N Brown.

What type of person are we looking for?

• Driven by boundless curiosity and experimentally minded, always starting with 'why?'.
• Tenacious and persistent, willing to go above and beyond to deliver great outcomes.
• Focused and decisive, able to ruthlessly prioritise to stay on track.
• Energised by collaboration and a champion of radical candour.
• Believes as much in having fun as working hard.

What will you do as a Senior Platform Engineer?

• Develop and maintain a scalable, resilient, cloud-based infrastructure using an Infrastructure as Code approach.
• Provide automation, tooling and cloud infrastructure support to squads.
• Undertake the provision of infrastructure-level monitoring and alerting to assist with operational support and troubleshooting for platforms and services.
• Contributing to the design of secure, scalable and resilient platform architecture, that supports continuous improvement.
• Ensuring high availability/disaster recovery processes are built as per the Disaster Recovery/Resilience policy.
• Being a key contributor/reviewer in the creation and updating of knowledge/runbooks to assist others in supporting/problem solving to reduce key person dependencies.
• Undertake complex problem solving to get to the root cause of platform related issues, sharing knowledge and expertise with platform engineers to build their skills.

What experience are we looking for?

• AWS eg API Gateway/Lambdas/Cognito/S3/DynamoDB.
• IaC, specifically Terraform.
• Continuous Integration/deployment eg Gitlab CI, Azure DevOps.
• Containerisation eg Docker.
• Monitoring and alerting tooling eg Grafana/Kibana/Cloudwatch.
• Governance and security administration, eg IAM, vault key management.
• Configuration management tools, ideally Puppet.
• Cloud cost management and optimisation.
• Multipurpose programming language, preferably Python.
• Lifecycle management eg Jira, Azure DevOps.
• Devops methodology.

What's in it for you?

• Hybrid working and flexible start times.
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days.
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave.
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution.
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services.
• A range of financial wellbeing support.
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands.
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts.
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance.
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice.

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?

At N Brown, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by 'championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer'. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We’re a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We’re customer‑obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We’re experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we’re sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

In May 2024 we were delighted to be named one of The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2024. We work hard to create a happy and inclusive culture for everyone and we’re so proud to have made this list – as voted for by our very own colleagues!

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre. So if you are travelling by train, tram or bus we’re perfectly located, plus we’re surrounded by cool cafés, trendy bars and the best places to eat!

Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am - 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!

Please know your application is being reviewed by a real human being, not AI. We value your interest in joining us and appreciate you taking the time to submit your application.