Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud DevEx & AI-Driven Ops

On the Beach; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday plus birthday off

Disount on holidays

Learnerbly platform access

Maternity/paternity pay and parental &

Counselling support

Health plan (Simplyhealth)

Sick pay & wellbeing events

Gym discount

Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Death in Service

Onsite coffee shop

The Sandbox bar

Discounts at Manchester venues

Regular social events

Cycle to Work

Job summary

On the Beach is hiring Senior Platform Engineers in Manchester to evolve our cloud platform, tooling and automation. You will work with cross-functional teams to build reusable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and cost-aware, reliable services used by product teams.

You’ll help shape the future of our platform as AI-assisted tooling and modern cloud native practices mature, while mentoring peers and promoting best practices across the engineering org.

Qualifications

• Strong background in platform, cloud, infrastructure or developer tooling.
• Experience with AWS and cloud-native environments.
• Familiar with infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, automation and developer tooling.
• Ability to understand complex systems and make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Comfortable working across team boundaries and turning ambiguity into practical solutions.
• Focus on improving engineer experience beyond keeping infrastructure running.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Engineering, Digital Workplace and InfoSec to translate problems into scalable platform solutions.
• Improve self-service tooling, reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns.
• Develop CI/CD capabilities, improve cloud reliability and cost visibility.
• Contribute to observability, security and FinOps, balancing reliability, performance and cost.
• Occasional on-call responsibilities to monitor and respond to issues.
• Take ownership of complex problems and mentor peers through reviews and technical discussions.

Skills

Cloud engineering

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Security

FinOps

Mentoring

Developer tooling

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

IaC

Job description

On the Beach is hiring Senior Platform Engineers in Manchester to evolve our cloud platform, tooling and automation. You will work with cross-functional teams to build reusable infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and cost-aware, reliable services used by product teams.

You’ll help shape the future of our platform as AI-assisted tooling and modern cloud native practices mature, while mentoring peers and promoting best practices across the engineering org.