Senior Platform Engineer

Job Description

About The Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to join our Managed Services team. You will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing the infrastructure of multiple client environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and optimal performance. Your expertise in Java (particularly Spring Boot) and AWS will be critical in supporting our clients’ platforms and driving forward technical solutions.

As a Senior Platform Engineer at our company, you'll be a key contributor within a multi-disciplinary team, working on digital solutions that deliver real value to users. You’ll collaborate with internal teams and clients to provide technical leadership and hands-on engineering, guiding platform development and operational excellence.

Requirements of the Role

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, build, and maintain user-centered solutions that meet client requirements.
• Ensure the reliability and scalability of platforms through monitoring, troubleshooting, and proactive maintenance.
• Lead the design and management of infrastructure deployment pipelines, addressing issues and challenges before they impact operations.
• Maintain strong client relationships by providing clear communication, updates, and technical expertise.
• Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on platform engineering, infrastructure management, and cloud services.
• Mentor and support other engineers in the team, fostering a culture of learning and continuous improvement.

About the Candidate:

We need people who are open to new technologies, quick to adapt, and quick to learn. If you don’t have one of the following please apply and we can discuss in more detail.

Required Skills and Experience

• Strong experience in Java development, with deep knowledge of Spring Boot and associated libraries.
• Experience with AWS services and infrastructure, including hands-on experience with provisioning and managing cloud environments.
• Experience in a range of architecture approaches, containerization, and building scalable, resilient systems.
• Expertise in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Github Actions, CircleCI, AWS CodeBuild, or similar.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, Pulimi, AWS CDK, or similar.
• Proven ability to work within Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and a Test-Driven Development (TDD) environment.
• Strong communication skills, capable of engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in managing multiple client environments, ensuring stability, scalability, and performance optimisation.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Understanding of front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and how they integrate with back-end systems.
• Familiarity with alerting and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and PagerDuty for real-time monitoring and alert management.
• Understanding and experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools and processes, including ticket management systems (e.g., HaloPSA).
• Experience with Python development.
• Knowledge of Node.js, particularly in building and maintaining AWS Lambda functions.
• Understanding of authentication and identity management solutions, including OAuth2 and related technologies.

About The Company

As well as a competitive salary which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory pension scheme (company 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions
• tree planting