Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (AWS / OpenShift)

Location: London, Bristol, or Edinburgh (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office)

Salary: £70,000 – £85,000 DOE + bonus + 15% pension

Join a well-established engineering team responsible for one of the most critical container platforms in the organisation - Red Hat OpenShift running on AWS.

You’ll work within a collaborative team of five Platform Engineers, supporting and evolving a mature container platform that hosts a range of business-critical customer-facing services. This isn’t greenfield, it’s a technically rich, high-impact environment where you’ll help refine, automate, and modernise an already well-run platform to make it as seamless as possible for developers to consume.

Delivering and continuously improving OpenShift platforms on AWS

Automating infrastructure delivery using Terraform and GitOps principles

Enhancing reliability, performance, and security of the platform

Supporting onboarding of new workloads and services

Working on projects to make the platform more self-healing and developer-friendly

Collaborating closely with DevEx teams and other internal engineering squads

You’ll bring:

3+ years’ experience in platform or infrastructure engineering

2+ years with container platforms (OpenShift or Kubernetes)

Strong AWS knowledge and Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform)

Good understanding of Linux, scripting (Python / Bash), and automation

Familiarity with CI/CD, change and release processes, and agile environments

An understanding of regulated environments, as well as governance and security best practices

Whether you come from an operations or development background, you’ll bring an engineering mindset and a structured, disciplined approach to delivery.

What's in it for you?

A technically mature environment, no firefighting or chaos, just smart engineering

Opportunity to work on interesting automation and platform-as-a-product initiatives

A collaborative, experienced team with great mentorship opportunities

15% pension, annual bonus, flexible hybrid working, and a genuine focus on employee wellbeing