About this role
POSITION SNAPSHOT
• Role: Senior Platform Engineer
• Location: Manchester
• Contract: Permanent
Why Us And Why This Role
Seize the opportunity to be part of a unique business with an exciting vision for the future - where we dare to be bold, discover what’s possible, and do incredible. Dare. Discover. Do. At PZ Cussons, we offer five big reasons that people join and stay: Futureproof Our Brands, Create Your Own Impact, Accelerate Your Craft, Flexibility to Perform, And Collaborate with Intent. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll help shape the technology foundations that power data, analytics and AI across PZ Cussons. You'll play a pivotal role in designing and evolving our Azure Data & AI platform, making sure it is secure, scalable, reliable and ready for the future. Working across engineering, analytics, infrastructure and business teams, you'll help unlock trusted data products and AI capabilities that support better decisions and meaningful business outcomes. This is an opportunity to combine deep technical expertise with real influence, helping define standards, accelerate innovation and create lasting impact across a global organisation
What You'll Be Doing
• Build and continuously improve the Azure Data & AI platform, creating secure, scalable and automated foundations that enable analytics and AI across the business.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD best practices through Terraform and GitHub Actions, helping teams deliver platform capabilities quickly, consistently and safely.
• Develop reusable data engineering patterns that improve the quality, reliability and accessibility of data across multiple source systems and products.
• Strengthen platform resilience through monitoring, observability, security controls and proactive optimisation of performance and cost.
• Champion engineering excellence by establishing standards, improving deployment governance and supporting high-quality delivery across the platform lifecycle.
• Share knowledge, mentor colleagues and help grow platform and data engineering capability across the wider team
What You'll Bring
• Strong experience in Azure platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps automation or a similar senior engineering role.
• Hands-on expertise with Microsoft Azure services, particularly data and AI platform technologies, networking, security, identity and monitoring.
• Proven experience using Terraform and infrastructure-as-code approaches to build secure, repeatable and scalable solutions.
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments and release governance using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Strong understanding of data engineering concepts, including data ingestion, orchestration, transformation, validation and data quality.
• Confidence working with tools such as SQL, Python or Azure CLI, alongside excellent problem-solving, communication and stakeholder management skills.
What You'll Get In Return
MyBenefits brings together your total rewards in one place, giving you the flexibility to choose what matter most. Key benefits we offer include:
• Competitive annual bonus, pension, life assurance and Share Incentive Plan
• Private medical cover plus health & wellbeing support
• Flexible holiday options, including buy and accrual
• 1pm Friday finish for better work-life balance
• Hybrid/electric car scheme, cycle to work & free mortgage advice
• Discounted and complimentary PZ products
• Onsite gym where available
Our Purpose, Culture And Values
At PZ Cussons, our purpose is For Everyone, For Life, For Good. Guided by our BEST values, Bold, Energetic, Striving and Together, we nurture a culture where people feel empowered to grow, perform and make a meaningful difference every day. We retain the pioneering spirit of our founders, by building portfolios of locally-loved brands across our key markets in the UK, ANZ, Nigeria and Indonesia, backed by the manufacturing scale and capability of a global business. Spanning Personal, Home, and Baby Care, our products are trusted by millions of consumers worldwide, including Carex, Childs Farm, Cussons Baby, Imperial Leather, Morning Fresh, Original Source, Premier, Sanctuary Spa and St. Tropez.
Inclusion and Fairness
We’re committed to building diverse teams that reflect our consumers and communities, creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and able to thrive. If you need any adjustments during the process, just let us know.
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Dare to be bold, Discover what’s possible, and Do the incredible.