Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer – Berkshire, UK

GS Group are partnered with a growing technology-led business based in Berkshire who are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join their engineering function.

The business is developing its Platform Engineering capability and is looking for someone who can help move away from a traditional DevOps approach towards a more self-service, developer-focused platform model.

This is a hands-on role where you'll work closely with software development teams, understand their requirements and build the reusable infrastructure, automation and tooling that enables them to manage their own development-to-production journey.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain reusable platform infrastructure, tooling and automation for internal engineering teams.
• Work directly with software developers to understand their requirements, challenges and pain points.
• Develop self-service solutions that allow development teams to deploy and manage their own applications with less reliance on central DevOps support.
• Build and maintain reusable infrastructure modules, pipelines, templates and deployment tooling.
• Establish consistent and scalable approaches to infrastructure and application delivery across multiple development teams.
• Own platform solutions throughout their lifecycle, including upgrades, improvements, documentation and adoption.
• Work closely with engineering teams to encourage adoption and continuously improve the developer experience.
• Identify repetitive or manual processes and turn them into automated, reusable solutions.
• Help shape the direction and standards of the wider Platform Engineering function.

Experience

• Previous experience working as a Platform Engineer, with demonstrable experience building platforms or tooling for other engineering teams.
• Strong background in DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure or Software Engineering, with experience progressing into Platform Engineering.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Experience working with cloud infrastructure, such as AWS or Azure.
• Experience with Kubernetes and modern CI/CD practices.
• Experience working with tools such as Argo CD, GitLab, Helm, Kustomize or similar technologies.
• Experience building reusable modules, templates, pipelines or internal developer tooling.
• Comfortable working directly with software development teams to understand requirements and design practical solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to explain technical solutions and work collaboratively with engineers.
• A strong sense of ownership, with an interest in building solutions that are adopted and used by other teams.
• Experience supporting a self-service or internal platform model would be highly beneficial.

What we're looking for

The key distinction for this role is Platform Engineering rather than traditional DevOps.

We're interested in people who have built tools and platforms that other engineering teams consume and own themselves, rather than primarily carrying out infrastructure or deployment work on behalf of those teams.

If you've worked closely with developers, identified problems in their development or deployment processes and built reusable solutions to allow them to work more independently, this could be a strong fit.

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