Platform Engineer - 6 month fixed term contract

We offer remote working. If preferred, we can also do a hybrid approach with our offices based in Manchester, Stoke, Peterborough, Sunderland, Chesterfield and Tunbridge Wells.

Role Purpose

The Platform Engineer will support the delivery of the group’s vision for developer self‑service, containerisation, golden templates and automation. Utilising technologies such as internal developer platforms (Backstage), Kubernetes (AKS, NKP etc.), CI/CD (Azure DevOps pipelines, GitLab, Octopus etc.), GitOps (ArgoCD), Infrastructure as code (Terraform) within both on‑prem and public cloud providers.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Cloud Platforms

• Proficiency with major cloud providers primarily Azure
• Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS)
• Cloud services (e.g., AKS, Azure Functions, GKE)

Infrastructure as Code (I...