About this role
Salary: £70,000 - 80,000 per year
Requirements
- Experienced Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or Senior DevOps Engineer comfortable influencing technical direction across multiple engineering teams.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps and cloud-native services.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code using Bicep, Terraform, or similar.
- Experience designing and optimising CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience implementing observability platforms such as Datadog, New Relic, Azure Monitor, Kibana, or similar.
- Experience with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright or an equivalent JavaScript testing framework.
- Experience coaching engineering teams and embedding platform engineering best practices.
- Experience supporting large-scale, customer-facing digital platforms.
- Experience with .NET, React, and TypeScript is beneficial.
Responsibilities
- Own our platform engineering practice across the business and act as the technical authority for platform reliability, observability, and engineering quality.
- Define engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across platform engineering, DevOps, and quality engineering.
- Lead implementation of an observability strategy, including telemetry, monitoring, dashboards, and alerting that provide insight into application and platform health.
- Improve our Azure platform capabilities and help bring greater Infrastructure as Code ownership in-house.
- Review and evolve our existing Playwright automation estate, enabling developers to take greater ownership of automated testing through modern practices.
- Optimise CI/CD pipelines to improve build performance, deployment speed, and release confidence.
- Work alongside the Tech Lead to improve reliability, scalability, and operational excellence across our web and mobile platforms.
- Help shape the capabilities needed to support AI-assisted, spec-driven software delivery.
- Define standards, select tooling, build reusable frameworks, and coach development teams without becoming a bottleneck or owning every deployment.
Technologies
- AI
- Azure
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- CTO
- Datadog
- DevOps
- Support
- JavaScript
- Kibana
- Mobile
- Playwright
- React
- Terraform
- TypeScript
- Web
- ASP.NET
More
We are investing in our engineering capability as we modernise our technology estate and embrace AI-assisted software delivery. Reporting to the CTO, you will work with the CTO and Tech Leads to shape our platform strategy, technical direction, architecture, and engineering culture. Our Azure platform, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD foundations are already established, and this role will help take them further. The position is based in Central Manchester, with a hybrid working model of three days per week in our new offices. Salary is up to £80,000, plus benefits including a bonus and private healthcare. This is an opportunity to have genuine ownership and visible impact while helping development teams deliver software faster and with greater confidence.
last updated 43 week of 2026