Senior Platform Engineer Reliability & Automation (Hybrid)

CENTERPRISE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

Wales

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

EV salary sacrifice

Death in service

SAGE Benefits membership

Charity donation scheme

Centre savings club

Free parking

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Centerprise International Limited in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to own day-to-day reliability, operability and continual improvement of the Centerprise platform estate. You will lead a small engineering team, establish standards and ensure platform services are stable and efficient to support customers.

This senior, hands-on role blends technical leadership with hands-on design, operation and driving automation across platform services.

Qualifications

Proven experience in a senior infrastructure, platform or reliability engineering role.
Experience operating and supporting business-critical platforms.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across infrastructure and platform services.
Experience coordinating technical priorities and workloads within a small engineering team.
Experience supporting major incidents, service recovery and resilience testing.
A relevant degree or equivalent practical experience operating infrastructure and platform services.

Responsibilities

Own the operational health, availability and reliability of the platform estate.
Act as the senior technical escalation point for platform issues and incidents.
Lead the investigation and resolution of complex infrastructure and platform problems.
Support major incidents, continuity events and service recovery, including out-of-hours escalation when required.
Identify and address technical debt, operational risk and platform weaknesses.
Ensure services remain supportable, recoverable and operationally efficient.
Own monitoring and observability tooling, standards and operational dashboards.
Develop service health metrics that provide clear and useful operational insight.
Improve the quality of monitoring and alerting so teams can respond quickly and effectively.
Use operational data to identify reliability improvements and automation opportunities.
Develop a more proactive approach to service health and platform management.
Provide senior technical ownership across the platform estate.
Coordinate the daily workload, priorities and activities of Platform Engineers.
Establish and maintain engineering standards, operating procedures and platform documentation.
Provide technical guidance that strengthens capability across the team.
Ensure internal and customer platform onboarding is completed consistently.
Remain hands-on in the design, operation and improvement of platform services.
Make automation a standard engineering practice within the platform function.
Identify repetitive operational activities and reduce manual effort.
Design and implement platform automations using appropriate scripting, orchestration and workflow tools.
Work closely with Delivery Engineering and Automation Engineering to improve repeatability and efficiency.
Ensure each improvement leaves the service easier to operate, maintain and support.
Contribute technical expertise to development of Centerprise platform services.
Support the introduction of new platform capabilities and technologies.
Provide input into operational readiness, service design and technical standards.
Support upgrades, migrations, optimisation and lifecycle activity.
Assist with customer requirements involving local repositories, backup services, and onward transfer to cloud platforms.
Provide limited presales support when specialist platform knowledge is required.
Follow information security policies and promptly report weaknesses or incidents.
Maintain high standards of security, resilience and operational control.
For role: health and safety culture across the business.