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!