Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud, Reliability & DevOps

Genio; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Learning allowance

Flexible hours

Home working

Office parking

Remote work policy

Job summary

Genio is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the design and operation of its cloud infrastructure from conception to production. You will partner with squads to drive reliability, security, and cost efficiency while advancing best-practice tooling and automation across engineering teams.

You will own cloud infrastructure evolution, implement full observability, and act as a technical advisor to uplift platform capabilities, mentoring engineers and leading incident responses in a hybrid

Qualifications

• Takes ambiguous problems, defines options, and writes clear design documents.
• Strong scripting/programming in Python and/or Bash for automation.
• Proficient with Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Experience with AWS or Google Cloud cloud platforms.
• Experience operating production Kubernetes clusters under load.
• Ownership of production service reliability and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Genio’s cloud infrastructure with scalable, secure, resilient designs.
• Improve observability with monitoring, alerts, and tracing; define SLIs/SLAs/SLAs.
• Lead incidents for PlatformOps; coordinate responses and post-incident reviews.
• Automate repetitive tasks and build scalable engineering workflows.
• Mentor engineers and upskill teams on platform tooling and DevOps practices.

Skills

Systems design

Python/Bash

Terraform

AWS/Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Reliability & Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Job description

Genio is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the design and operation of its cloud infrastructure from conception to production. You will partner with squads to drive reliability, security, and cost efficiency while advancing best-practice tooling and automation across engineering teams.

You will own cloud infrastructure evolution, implement full observability, and act as a technical advisor to uplift platform capabilities, mentoring engineers and leading incident responses in a hybrid