Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable Infra & AI Tools

SR2; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 84,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in Bristol is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance platform reliability and developer experience. You'll design resilient cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD workflows, and support large-scale operations. This hands-on role promises real ownership with significant impact and a collaborative culture that values feedback and learning. The position offers a competitive salary range of £50k-£84k, equity, and a hybrid work setup with flexible hours.

Benefits

Equity

Private healthcare

Flexible working hours

Wellness budget

Enhanced maternity & paternity leave

Monthly company-wide get-togethers

Qualifications

• Strong engineering fundamentals and a platform/infrastructure mindset.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP or similar).
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Experience supporting production systems and improving reliability.
• Familiarity with containers, orchestration, and deployment tooling.
• A pragmatic, problem-solving approach.

Responsibilities

• Designing and maintaining scalable, resilient cloud infrastructure.
• Building and improving CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.
• Improving observability, monitoring, and incident response practices.
• Supporting platform reliability for large-scale voting operations.
• Enabling application teams through better tooling, automation, and documentation.
• Working on infrastructure that supports AI-enabled products.
• Refactoring and modernising existing platform services.

Skills

Strong engineering fundamentals

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP)

Infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi)

Production systems support

Containers and orchestration

Problem-solving approach

Job description

A technology firm in Bristol is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance platform reliability and developer experience. You'll design resilient cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD workflows, and support large-scale operations. This hands-on role promises real ownership with significant impact and a collaborative culture that values feedback and learning. The position offers a competitive salary range of £50k-£84k, equity, and a hybrid work setup with flexible hours.