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!