Platform Engineer
hace 7 días
Liverpool
Role: Platform Engineer Salary: £65,000-£75,000 Location: Liverpool Work pattern: Hybrid Overview A leading, fast-growing e-commerce organisation is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to manage and automate hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure within a high-volume environment. This role focuses on Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, observability, security, reliability, cost optimisation, and DevOps/SRE best practices, supporting a complex multi-cloud and on-prem estate. Key Responsibilities: • Design and manage hybrid cloud and on-prem infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible), ensuring secure, repeatable, production-aligned environments, • Manage infrastructure across AWS and on-prem systems, including Windows Server (Domain Controllers, Hyper-V), Linux environments, networking, storage, and virtualisation, • Build and optimise CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Cloud Build, Jenkins, GitLab CI), enabling rapid and reliable delivery, • Implement blue-green deployments, canary releases, and rolling updates, including zero-downtime database deployments and schema migrations, • Develop and maintain full-stack observability using tools such as Grafana, Loki, Datadog, Prometheus, New Relic, and CloudWatch, • Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and automated incident workflows, including integration with Jira Service Management, • Strengthen cloud security posture using GuardDuty, Security Hub, Macie, Inspector, IAM, and secrets management, ensuring PCI-DSS compliance, • Embed DevSecOps practices, integrating tools such as Snyk into CI/CD pipelines, • Drive reliability engineering through SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, incident response, and disaster recovery testing, • Lead capacity planning and performance optimisation for peak trading events, • Optimise cost and resource usage through right-sizing, tagging strategies, and forecasting, • Leverage AI-driven tooling (AIOps) for anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and operational optimisation, • Collaborate cross-functionally, maintain documentation, and promote DevOps best practices Required Experience & Skills: • 5+ years’ experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering within hybrid cloud environments, • Strong AWS expertise (EC2, RDS, ECS, S3, CloudFront, Route 53, Lambda, IAM, VPC, WAF), • Infrastructure as Code experience (CloudFormation required; Terraform/Pulumi desirable), • Containerisation and orchestration using Docker, ECS and/or Kubernetes, • Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals, • Experience with CI/CD pipeline development and controlled deployment strategies, • Python (essential) for automation, cloud integrations (Boto3), and DevSecOps tooling, • Bash/Shell scripting (essential) for Linux automation and CI/CD environments, • Experience with monitoring/logging tools (Grafana, Datadog, Prometheus, CloudWatch, New Relic, Loki), • Strong understanding of cloud security tooling and DevSecOps principles Benefits: • Bonus Scheme, • Private Medical and Dental Care, • Strong progression opportunities within a scaling tech team Apply now to find out more detail and be considered for this opportunity!