Senior Platform Engineer – AWS, Terraform, CI/CD | Hybrid

Searchability; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Customer site travel expenses covered

Training and certifications

Job summary

Searchability seeks a Senior/Principal/Lead Platform Engineer to design, build and improve cloud platforms across AWS for UK public sector projects. You will work closely with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable services and drive platform engineering best practices.

The role involves mentoring engineers, leading CI/CD improvements, and ensuring reliable, highly available production environments in a hybrid setting with customer-site days.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or Cloud Engineering.
• Hands-on AWS and Terraform experience.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Linux, Git and CI/CD.
• Experience mentoring engineers or providing technical direction for senior/lead roles.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure, particularly across AWS.
• Automate infrastructure using Terraform and configuration management tools.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Support reliable, highly available production environments.
• Work with Kubernetes, Linux and modern DevOps tooling.
• Share knowledge, mentor engineers and provide technical leadership where appropriate.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Git

Job description

Searchability seeks a Senior/Principal/Lead Platform Engineer to design, build and improve cloud platforms across AWS for UK public sector projects. You will work closely with engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable services and drive platform engineering best practices.

The role involves mentoring engineers, leading CI/CD improvements, and ensuring reliable, highly available production environments in a hybrid setting with customer-site days.