Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Automation & CI/CD

SCC; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

SCC is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to support the build, automation, and optimisation of modern cloud and infrastructure platforms within a large enterprise environment. You will drive platform reliability, scalability, and automation across transformation programmes.

Role requires hands-on IaC with Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation, cloud skills (Azure/AWS/GCP), and strong CI/CD experience. This is a contract opportunity with a focus on security, governance, and collaboration across

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining enterprise-scale platform solutions.
• Strong cloud experience across Azure, AWS, and/or GCP.
• Hands-on IaC using Terraform, Bicep, Ansible or CloudFormation.
• Solid knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes).
• CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure platform solutions.
• Implement IaC with Terraform, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Automate operational processes to boost efficiency and reliability.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams.
• Monitor platform performance and identify optimisation opportunities.
• Support cloud migration and modernisation initiatives.
• Ensure alignment with security, governance, and compliance requirements.

Skills

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS/GCP)

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Docker / Kubernetes

Scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash)

Automation & tooling

Monitoring & observability

Security & compliance awareness

Collaboration across teams

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

SCC is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to support the build, automation, and optimisation of modern cloud and infrastructure platforms within a large enterprise environment. You will drive platform reliability, scalability, and automation across transformation programmes.

Role requires hands-on IaC with Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation, cloud skills (Azure/AWS/GCP), and strong CI/CD experience. This is a contract opportunity with a focus on security, governance, and collaboration across