Senior Platform Engineer

Sheffield - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Location: Broad Street Sheffield

Full-time permanent

Salary: 75000 - 85000 per annum.

Hybrid: Minimum of 2 days in the office per week

Were looking for talented Platform Engineers to help design build and evolve our secure scalable and resilient cloud platform the backbone that powers our products and development teams.

Youll be part of a collaborative engineering community that values automation observability and continuous improvement helping us deliver reliable high-performance services at scale.

What will the role involve

Designing and implementing highly available scalable infrastructure in AWS.
Ensuring our cloud environments security and governance meet best-practice standards.
Troubleshooting complex production issues across infrastructure networking and application layers and deliver durable fixes.
Modernising existing cloud environments and CI/CD pipelines to enhance resilience security cost-efficiency and developer experience.
Delivering Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform Pulumi AWS CDK or CloudFormation.
Building automated testing frameworks that make deployments reliable repeatable and low-risk.
Partnering with SRE and software teams to define shared reliability goals and deliver on them.
Championing reliability practices such as SLOs error budgets and blameless post-incident reviews.
Enhancing observability with robust metrics logging and tracing for better operational visibility and faster response times.
Working closely with security and compliance teams to maintain safe auditable environments aligned with regulatory standards.
Taking part in on-call rotations and incident response always focused on learning and improving.

Qualifications :

What are we looking for

Around 5 years experience in Cloud Operations or Platform Engineering.
Deep technical expertise with AWS (or Azure/equivalent) including compute storage networking and identity services.
Proven troubleshooting skills across distributed systems with the ability to diagnose and resolve performance networking and availability challenges.
Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience.
Experience with CI/CD tools such as AWS CodeCommit (or similar).
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (EKS AKS or equivalent) for container orchestration.
Solid knowledge of observability stacks monitoring alerting and self-healing systems.
Experience enforcing reliability and security standards in cloud environments.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills.
A mindset focused on simplification standardisation and continuous improvement.

Dont meet every single requirement Thats okay and you arent alone! Research shows that women and people of colour are less likely to apply for a role unless they meet all the criteria. At SBS were committed to building a diverse inclusive team where everyone feels they belong. So if this role excites you and youre eager to grow wed love to hear from you - even if your experience doesnt tick every box just yet send in your application!

Additional Information :

Whats in it for you

Were committed to supporting our employees in every aspect of their lives from health and wellbeing to financial security and lifestyle perks. Heres a snapshot of the benefits youll enjoy as part of our team:

Competitive salary: 75000 - 85000 per annum.

Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance Health Cash Plan Dental Insurance Eye Care Vouchers Flu Vaccinations

Finance & Protection: Life Assurance Critical Illness Cover Pension Plan Long Service Awards Payroll Giving Fleet car provider

Leisure & Lifestyle: Cycle to Work Scheme Holiday Trading Travel Insurance

As part of our hiring process new employees will be required to pass a confidential consumer credit check and DBS check. This is a straightforward credit check for CCJs bankruptcy and a criminal record check; however if you wish to know more about what is or is not acceptable please ask our recruitment team.

At our organization we are committed to fighting against all forms of discrimination. We foster a work environment that is inclusive and respectful of all differences.

All of our positions are open to people with disabilities.

Remote Work :

Employment Type :

Full-time

Location: Broad Street Sheffield Full-time permanent Salary: 75000 - 85000 per annum. Hybrid: Minimum of 2 days in the office per weekWere looking for talented Platform Engineers to help design build and evolve our secure scalable and resilient cloud platform the backbone that powers our products ...