Platform engineer

Role: Platform Engineer

Salary: £60,000-£65,000

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!