Senior Platform Engineer

Anson McCade; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus and benefits

Job summary

Anson McCade is supporting a leading global consultancy in expanding its high-performing Engineering team. This hands-on role focuses on designing, building and supporting cloud-native platforms across AWS and Azure, with a strong emphasis on collaboration and technical excellence.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevSecOps and SRE practices, implement Terraform IaC, and use AI-assisted tooling to improve reliability and delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
• Hands-on DevSecOps engineering in enterprise environments.
• Proven Terraform experience building Infrastructure as Code.
• Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native practices.
• Experience supporting live production platforms.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and support scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across environments.
• Drive DevSecOps best practices and engineering standards.
• Implement SRE observability, monitoring and reliability.
• Support production environments and drive continuous service improvements.
• Mentor engineers and lead technical discussions in agile teams.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity.

Skills

AWS

Azure

Terraform

DevSecOps

SRE

Observability

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

CI/CD

Production support

Mentoring

AI-assisted tooling

Job description

We are currently supporting a leading global consultancy as they continue to grow their high-performing Engineering team.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you'll help build, improve and support cloud-native platforms, working alongside talented engineers in an environment that values technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning.

What you'll be doing:

• Designing, building and supporting scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure
• Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across production and non-production environments
• Driving DevSecOps best practice and improving engineering standards across delivery teams
• Implementing SRE principles including observability, monitoring, SLIs/SLOs and platform reliability
• Supporting production environments, incident management and continuous service improvements
• Mentoring engineers and acting as a technical leader within agile delivery teams
• Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and software quality

What they're looking for:

• Strong experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Hands-on DevSecOps engineering experience within enterprise environments
• Proven Terraform experience building Infrastructure as Code
• Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus or similar
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native engineering practices
• Experience supporting live production platforms
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring other engineers

What's on offer:

• Salary of £60,000 - £65,000
• Bonus and benefits package
• Ongoing training, certifications and clear career progression
Opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies and AI-assisted engineering practices