Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Automation & Hybrid Work

Vix Technology; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site offices

Learning and development

Collaborative team culture

Job summary

Vix Technology is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and continually improve AWS-based infrastructures, operating across production and non-production environments. You’ll design, build, and automate scalable platforms, collaborating with product, development and customer teams to deliver reliable services.

The role focuses on infrastructure modernisation, automation, and cloud operations, with responsibilities spanning CI/CD, IaC, monitoring and security in a hybrid UK work setting.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering or DevOps.
• Strong experience administering AWS cloud environments.
• Experience managing Linux and Windows infrastructure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation and/or Terraform).
• Experience developing CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with automation using PowerShell, Bash or Python.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, routing, load balancing and firewalls.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production environments.
• Understanding of monitoring, logging and observability tools.
• Knowledge of security best practices and DevSecOps principles.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain secure, highly available AWS infrastructure.
• Operate and support production and non-production environments across multiple products.
• Deliver infrastructure improvements, platform upgrades and cloud migration initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using CloudFormation and/or Terraform.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Automate operational processes using scripting and configuration management tools.
• Monitor platform health, performance and security, proactively identifying improvements.
• Investigate and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues.
• Work closely with software engineering, product management and customer support teams.
• Contribute to platform architecture and technical design decisions.
• Participate in operational support and incident management activities.
• Mentor engineers and promote engineering best practices.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Site Reliability

DevOps

AWS

Linux Admin

CI/CD Pipelines

Automation Scripting

Networking

Security Best Practices

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CloudFormation

GitHub Actions

Splunk

CloudWatch

IAM

Job description

Vix Technology is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and continually improve AWS-based infrastructures, operating across production and non-production environments. You’ll design, build, and automate scalable platforms, collaborating with product, development and customer teams to deliver reliable services.

The role focuses on infrastructure modernisation, automation, and cloud operations, with responsibilities spanning CI/CD, IaC, monitoring and security in a hybrid UK work setting.