Senior Platform Engineer — Azure Ownership & Scale

LinuxRecruit; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

LinuxRecruit is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to take genuine ownership of the platform, tackle meaningful technical challenges, and influence the direction of critical infra on Azure and AWS.

This hands-on, player-manager role reports to the CTO, focusing on platform engineering, IaC, CI/CD, containers, and orchestration, with autonomy to shape architecture and delivery in a fast-growing company with a real societal impact.

Qualifications

• Senior level platform engineer with ownership and leadership experience.
• Strong Azure experience and hands-on cloud engineering.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD, containers and orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Own the platform across Azure and AWS and drive architecture decisions.
• Lead resilience, security and scalability improvements.
• Collaborate with CTO and Head of Engineering to deliver roadmap.

Skills

Autonomy

Ownership

Platform engineering

Cloud experience

Tools

Azure

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

LinuxRecruit is seeking a senior Platform Engineer to take genuine ownership of the platform, tackle meaningful technical challenges, and influence the direction of critical infra on Azure and AWS.

This hands-on, player-manager role reports to the CTO, focusing on platform engineering, IaC, CI/CD, containers, and orchestration, with autonomy to shape architecture and delivery in a fast-growing company with a real societal impact.