Staff Platform Engineer

Burns Sheehan; Wallingford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Ltd is recruiting a Platform Engineer to help build the infrastructure, tooling and deployment capability behind a robotics platform used in live warehouse environments.

This role blends modern platform engineering with robotics-facing challenges, demanding cloud, edge and multi-cloud experience, Kubernetes, Go or TypeScript, and a passion for reliable, scalable software delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering or site reliability engineering.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience building automation frameworks and self-service development platforms.
• Good programming skills in Go or TypeScript and strong observability knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure supporting user-facing apps, internal services and deployments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling for multiple teams.
• Manage containerised environments across a multi-cloud setup.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Support monitoring, logging, observability and incident response.
• Improve reliability, automation, security hardening and platform maturity.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Go

TypeScript

Observability

Incident response

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

Job description

Platform Engineer | Robotics, Kubernetes, Linux, Multi-Cloud | £80,000 - £110,000

A high growth technology business is looking for a Platform Engineer to help build the infrastructure, tooling and deployment capability behind a genuinely impressive robotics platform operating in live warehouse environments.

This is not a traditional infrastructure role. The business is developing autonomous robotics technology used in real world industrial settings, where cloud infrastructure, internal platforms and edge connected systems all need to work seamlessly together. It is a genuinely interesting engineering challenge, with the platform team playing a key role in making sure software can be deployed quickly, reliably and at scale.

Key responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure supporting user-facing applications, internal services and high velocity deployments
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling used by multiple engineering teams
• Manage containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes across a multi-cloud setup
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud
• Support monitoring, logging, observability and alerting across production systems
• Improve reliability, automation, security hardening and overall platform maturity
• Mentor more junior engineers and help promote DevOps and platform engineering best practice across the team

Requirements

• Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering or site reliability engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP or Azure, ideally across more than one provider
• Strong experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling
• Experience building automation frameworks, deployment pipelines and self-service developer platforms
• Good programming skills in Go or TypeScript
• Strong understanding of observability, monitoring and incident response tooling
• Comfortable working in fast paced, evolving environments where priorities can shift
• Any experience in robotics, IoT, edge computing or hardware-adjacent environments would be highly beneficial
• Previous scale-up or high growth technology experience would be a plus

Why this role is interesting

The role combines modern platform engineering with the challenges of supporting robotics and real world operational technology, which makes the technical problems far more interesting than standard infrastructure work.

It would suit someone who enjoys building, automating and improving engineering systems, and who wants their work to have a visible impact in a business developing genuinely impressive technology.

Robotics, Kubernetes, Linux, Multi-Cloud | £80,000 - £110,000

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.