Platform Engineer in Leicester, Leicestershire
Posted by Erin Associates
£65,000 – £70,000 a year
Leicester · Permanent
We’re looking for an experienced DevOps / Platform Engineer to build and maintain the internal platform that enables development teams to deliver software quickly, securely and reliably across cloud and on-premises environments.
THe Platform Engineer will work across Kubernetes, GitOps, infrastructure as code, CI/CD, observability and security, while helping create self-service tools and automation that make developers’ lives easier.
Key skills for this Platform Engineer:
- Strong production experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Linux
- AWS or another major cloud platform
- Terraform, Ansible, Helm and Argo CD
- CI/CD using GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or similar
- Monitoring and observability, ideally OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana
- Networking, security, secrets management and disaster recovery
- Scripting/programming with Go, Python or Bash
- Experience with on-premises/bare-metal environments
Experience with OpenShift, K3s, Docker Swarm, Cilium/eBPF, Backstage or AI-assisted engineering tools would be advantageous.
This is a great opportunity for a Platform Engineer / DevOps Engineer to help shape a modern platform and influence how engineering teams build, deploy and operate software.
Keywords; DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Kubernetes, Docker, Linux, Python, AWS, Terraform – Leicester, East Midlands, Loughborough, Coalville, Leicestershire, Corby
Erin Associates Ltd is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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