Senior Platform Engineer - Manchester

Anson McCade Pty; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Bonus eligibility

Training & certifications

Career progression

Job summary

Anson McCade Pty in Manchester is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to design and support scalable cloud platforms on AWS and Azure, with a strong focus on DevSecOps and IaC using Terraform.

You will drive reliability through SRE principles, implement observability, and mentor engineers in a hybrid work environment. The role offers a salary of £65,000 per year with a bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Commercial DevSecOps engineering experience.
• Proven Terraform and IaC skills.
• Understanding of SRE, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure.
• Build Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Drive DevSecOps practices and raise engineering standards.
• Implement SRE principles, observability, monitoring, and reliability improvements.
• Support production environments and mentor engineers.

Skills

AWS experience

Azure experience

DevSecOps engineering

Mentoring

Leadership

Tools

Terraform

Dynatrace

Grafana

Prometheus

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salary: £65,000 - 65,000 per year

Requirements

• Strong experience with AWS and/or Azure.
• Commercial DevSecOps engineering experience.
• Proven Terraform and Infrastructure as Code skills.
• Understanding of SRE, CI/CD, and cloud-native practices.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, or Prometheus.
• Comfortable leading technical discussions and supporting junior engineers.

Responsibilities

• Designing and supporting scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure.
• Building Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Driving DevSecOps practices and improving engineering standards.
• Implementing SRE principles, observability, monitoring, and reliability improvements.
• Supporting production environments and mentoring engineers.

Technologies

• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• Dynatrace
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Terraform
• DevOps

More

We are a leading global consultancy expanding our Engineering team in Manchester. We deliver complex, enterprise-scale cloud platforms for some of the UKs leading organisations and offer a hands‑on engineering role focused on cloud-native platforms, DevSecOps, automation, and platform reliability. The role offers a salary of £55,000 to £65,000 plus bonus, an excellent benefits package, exposure to enterprise-scale cloud transformation projects, training, certifications, career progression, and hybrid working.

last updated 40 week of 2026