Senior Platform Engineer: Azure, Terraform, CI/CD (Hybrid UK)

Project Global Limited; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 111,000 - 166,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Global Limited in Edinburgh is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a senior DevOps role, driving Azure-based platform design, Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability within a strategic digital transformation program for the financial-services sector.

This hybrid role allows UK-wide remote work with on-site attendance in Edinburgh three days per week. The 12-month contract offers a day rate and opportunities to influence engineering standards across a large enterprise.”

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience with reusable modules and automated validation.
• Demonstrable experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or comparable tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, IAM, secrets management, security controls and governance.
• Experience implementing observability with Azure Monitor, Application Insights or equivalent tools.
• Proven experience engineering highly available, resilient platforms and disaster recovery.
• Scripting or programming ability (PowerShell, Bash, Python).
• Ability to provide technical thought leadership while staying involved in design, build, and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and improve secure, scalable Azure platform services.
• Develop and maintain reusable IaC modules with testing and version control.
• Create and optimize CI/CD pipelines for apps, infra and config deployments.
• Drive release automation and environment consistency across delivery lifecycles.
• Implement observability via logs, metrics, traces and dashboards.
• Enhance platform resilience through capacity planning and runbooks.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to delivery teams.
• Collaborate with security and architecture stakeholders to embed governance.

Skills

Azure platform engineering

Terraform IaC

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Security and governance

Scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)

AI-assisted engineering

Technical leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AKS/Kubernetes

Job description

Project Global Limited in Edinburgh is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a senior DevOps role, driving Azure-based platform design, Terraform IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and observability within a strategic digital transformation program for the financial-services sector.

This hybrid role allows UK-wide remote work with on-site attendance in Edinburgh three days per week. The 12-month contract offers a day rate and opportunities to influence engineering standards across a large enterprise.”