Platform Engineer DevOps

<b>&#163;50,000 TO 65,000 GBP</b><br /><br /><b>Bonus</b><br /><br /><b>Hybrid WORKING</b><br /><br /><strong>Location:</strong> Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom <strong>Type:</strong> Permanent <br /><br /><b>Platform Engineer (DevOps)</b><br /><br /><strong>Location:</strong> Glasgow or Edinburgh (Hybrid) <br /><br /><strong>Salary:</strong> Competitive &#43; Excellent Benefits <br /><br /><strong>Security Clearance:</strong> Candidates must be eligible for BPSS and SC Clearance (5 years' continuous UK address history required). <br /><br /><b>The Opportunity</b><br /><br />I'm working with a leading global technology consultancy that is looking to hire Platform Engineers to join its rapidly growing engineering practice. <br /><br />This is an opportunity to work on large-scale digital transformation programmes across both public and private sector organisations, building modern cloud platforms and helping clients adopt best-in-class DevOps practices. <br /><br />You'll be joining a highly collaborative engineering community where you'll work alongside experienced software engineers, architects and platform specialists, delivering cloud-native solutions using modern technologies and engineering principles. <br /><br />If you enjoy solving complex technical challenges, automating everything possible and working with the latest cloud technologies, this is an excellent opportunity to accelerate your career. <br /><br /><b>What You'll Be Doing</b> <ul> <li>Designing, building and supporting cloud-native platforms on AWS.</li><li>Developing Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK and Terraform.</li><li>Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment quality and speed.</li><li>Managing Kubernetes environments in production.</li><li>Driving DevOps best practices across development and operations teams.</li><li>Working closely with software engineers to improve platform reliability, scalability and security.</li><li>Implementing monitoring, observability and automation to improve system resilience.</li><li>Contributing to technical communities, knowledge sharing and engineering best practice.</li></ul> You'll also have the opportunity to work with modern AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot and similar technologies to improve delivery efficiency and code quality. <br /><br /><b>What We're Looking For</b><br /><br />We're keen to speak with engineers who have experience in some or most of the following: <ul> <li>Strong AWS experience and knowledge of core cloud services.</li><li>Hands-on Kubernetes experience within production environments.</li><li>Infrastructure as Code using AWS CDK.</li><li>Terraform.</li><li>CI/CD pipeline development and automation.</li><li>DevOps tooling and best practices.</li><li>Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket.</li><li>Experience working within Agile delivery teams.</li></ul> <b>What's On Offer</b> <ul> <li>Competitive salary and benefits package.</li><li>Hybrid working.</li><li>Exposure to high-profile transformation programmes.</li><li>Access to industry-leading training and certifications.</li><li>Opportunity to work with modern cloud, DevOps and AI technologies.</li><li>Excellent career progression within a growing engineering practice.</li><li>Collaborative engineering culture with strong technical communities.</li></ul> <b>Additional Information</b> <ul> <li>Based in Glasgow or Edinburgh.</li><li>Willingness to travel to client sites across the UK on an ad hoc basis is required.</li><li>Unfortunately, sponsorship is not available for this position.</li><li>Employment is subject to successful BPSS and SC Security Clearance.</li></ul>