Platform Engineer
hace 14 días
Liverpool
Role: Platform Engineer Salary: £65,000-£75,000 Location: Liverpool Work pattern: hybrid Overview This company are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to manage and automate hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure within a high-volume e-commerce environment. This role centres on IaC, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, cost optimisation, and advancing DevOps practices. Key Responsibilities: • Design and manage hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (e.g. CloudFormation, Terraform), ensuring secure, repeatable, production-aligned environments., • Maintain cloud and local systems (Windows/Linux), covering patching, networking, storage, virtualisation, and container platforms., • Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines with blue-green, canary, and rolling deployments, including automated, zero-downtime database releases., • Implement comprehensive monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated incident workflows with clear reporting., • Strengthen cloud security posture (IAM, secrets, vulnerability scanning) and embed DevSecOps practices while maintaining PCI-DSS compliance., • Drive reliability through SLIs/SLOs, incident response, disaster recovery testing, and capacity planning for peak events., • Optimise performance and cost across hybrid environments through right-sizing, forecasting, and resource governance., • Apply AI-driven tooling for anomaly detection, operational optimisation, and compliance automation., • Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and promote DevOps best practices. Required Experience & Skills: • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering (hybrid environments)., • Strong AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, and security services., • Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation required; Terraform/Pulumi desirable)., • Docker and ECS and/or Kubernetes., • CI/CD pipeline development and controlled deployment strategies., • Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals., • Python (essential) and Bash/Shell scripting., • Monitoring/logging tools (e.g. Grafana, Datadog, CloudWatch, Prometheus)., • Cloud security tooling and solid understanding of SRE principles. Benefits: • Bonus scheme, • Private Medical & Dental, • Huge progression scope within business If you are interested, please apply now!