Platform Engineer

From 41400 per annum (depending on skills & experience)

Full time / 37 hrs a week / Permanent

Huntingdon - Hybrid

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

Were building a modern engineering culture where automation reliability and developer experience are central to how we deliver technology. As a Platform Engineer youll join a collaborative team including Cloud DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers all focused on enabling secure efficient and resilient digital services.

Youll play a pivotal role in designing building and evolving internal platforms that empower our System Product and Delivery teams to develop deploy and operate digital and data services with speed safety and consistency. With a strong product mindset youll simplify complexity abstract infrastructure and create self-service capabilities that make it easy for engineers to do the right thing by default.

What will you be doing as a Platform Engineer

• Create and maintain the core platform for engineering teams to build and run their services.

• Partner with Cloud and SRE teams to improve service stability and cost efficiency.

• Implement and enforce cloud governance policies for security cost and compliance.

• Develop a self-service catalogue of standardised infrastructure patterns and services.

• Integrate observability tooling for logging metrics and tracing.

• Establish frameworks and automation for fast safe and repeatable application deployments.

• Lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

• Trial new tools and technologies to improve ways of working and contribute to the strategic roadmap.

What does it take to be a Platform Engineer

• Significant hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (preferably Microsoft Azure).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep or Terraform).

• Experience with CI/CD and automation (Azure DevOps pipelines).

• Strong scripting skills (e.g. Python PowerShell).

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

• Platform-as-a-Product mindset with curiosity and adaptability.

• Ability to analyse complex systems and identify performance bottlenecks.

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

• Double Matched Pension Scheme matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)

• Car Allowance

• 26 Days Annual Leave

• Personal private health care

• Annual bonus scheme

• Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work in the community

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Free parking at all offices sites and leisure parks

Were a purpose-led organisation committed to sustainability innovation and delivering long-term value for our customers and communities. As a Platform Engineer youll play a vital role in enabling secure efficient and resilient digital services that power our future.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. Were committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. Were proud to support the Social Mobility Pledge Race at Work Charter Armed Forces Covenant (Gold) Disability Confident scheme and the Womens Utility Network.

Closing date: 10/12/25

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