Senior Platform Engineer — Media Cloud, CI/CD & IaC Leader

Wave Works; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 77,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave Works in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for an initial 12-month contract, offering £450 per day outside IR35 with hybrid working in London. You will lead architecture and development of cloud-based media platform components and guide technical direction.

You will set up scalable CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with engineers and partners, and mentor a Platform Engineer. Strong media/broadcast experience and Terraform proficiency are highly valued.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in media or broadcast, understanding content production and workflow tooling.
• Strong CI/CD expertise, including designing and running pipelines (GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on cloud/platform engineering experience, 5+ years at a senior level.

Responsibilities

• Lead architecture and development of cloud-based media platform components (storage, ingest, workflow services).
• Deploy and manage scalable cloud infrastructure per enterprise standards.
• Design automation, scripting and API integrations to streamline media processing and production workflows.
• Build and own robust CI/CD pipelines for frequent releases.
• Mentor and manage one Platform Engineer, championing IaC practices.

Skills

Media/Broadcast experience

CI/CD with GitHub Actions

Platform/Cloud engineering (5+ yrs)

AWS

GCP

Terraform

REST API integration

DevOps mindset

Mentoring/leadership

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Job description

Wave Works in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for an initial 12-month contract, offering £450 per day outside IR35 with hybrid working in London. You will lead architecture and development of cloud-based media platform components and guide technical direction.

You will set up scalable CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with engineers and partners, and mentor a Platform Engineer. Strong media/broadcast experience and Terraform proficiency are highly valued.