We are looking for aPlatform Engineerto join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining components of the Connells X Platform. Your success is directly tied to enabling engineering teams to efficiently deploy, monitor, and scale their services on the platform. Your technical expertise and collaborative approach will drive both tactical implementations and contribute to strategic platform evolution.
You will be a hands-on engineer with a customer-centric mindset, working directly with development teams to understand their needs and deliver solutions. You will work across multiple technical domains including orchestration, automation, CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, observability, and security, developing deeper expertise in areas that align with platform priorities and your interests. Experience with Microsoft Azure is essential.
Daily coding is a core expectation of this role. You will implement platform features, automation tools, and infrastructure improvements while collaborating with team members to share knowledge and best practices. You will help establish Platform Engineering practices at Connells by mentoring colleagues and contributing to technical standards and documentation.
The platform team operates with a focus on automation and efficiency, maintaining a lean structure where engineers contribute ac...