Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Automation Lead

Hargreaves Lansdown group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

25 days holiday

Hybrid working

Pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Wellness program

Job summary

Hargreaves Lansdown is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team and shape the future of our cloud platform. You will design, build, and evolve platform capabilities that power scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud solutions.

You will create automated, reusable, self-service solutions to improve developer experience and enable faster delivery. You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-native solutions

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with public cloud services and cloud-native architectures.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) and scripting languages (Python, Bash).
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines, containerisation (Docker), and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes).
• Deep understanding of cloud security frameworks, identity management, and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Drive high-quality platform design and engineering standards.
• Enable automation, reliability, and cost optimisation at scale.
• Embed best practices that simplify and standardise how we build and run services.
• Mentor and support engineers, influencing technical direction across teams.

Skills

Cloud platforms

CI/CD pipelines

Python

Bash

Mentoring engineers

Analytical thinking

Stakeholder communication

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Hargreaves Lansdown is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Platform team and shape the future of our cloud platform. You will design, build, and evolve platform capabilities that power scalable, secure, and highly reliable cloud solutions.

You will create automated, reusable, self-service solutions to improve developer experience and enable faster delivery. You will mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and collaborate across teams to deliver cloud-native solutions