Platform Engineer

• We are seeking a Platform Engineer to join our growing Platform Engineering team. The team builds the automation, deployment tooling, infrastructure-as-code, and internal services that support AutoRek’s Azure-based SaaS estate
• The team is in an exciting transition phase; while what we have built to date has been consumed primarily by our internal Cloud Operations team who service our SaaS customers, we are now deliberately shifting towards a true platform engineering model: reusable services, clearer boundaries, and self-service capabilities that Product Engineering and other teams can consume directly
• You will play a hands-on part in that, building and improving platform components within an agreed technical direction and working with colleagues across the business
• This is a role for an engineer who wants to deepen their Azure, automation, and infrastructure-as-code expertise in a team where patterns, standards, and review processes are already established, with the support of senior engineers and the scope to take on more over time
• This is a hands-on technical role, while also building strong working relationships across Product Engineering, Cloud Operations, Security, Compliance, and other internal teams to support business needs and platform objectives
• Pick up scoped pieces of platform work and see them through implementation, testing, documentation, and handover, following the team’s established patterns and standards and flagging where you think there is a better approach
• Define and agree acceptance criteria for your scoped changes, including test evidence, rollback steps, and operational handover notes before release
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code pipelines and automation for our Azure SaaS platforms using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Azure DevOps (ADO), Ansible, and various scripting languages, helping to remove manual effort and make deployments more consistent and repeatable
• Contribute reusable platform components, such as modules, templates, and runbooks, and prefer standard patterns over one-off implementations
• Contribute your input to designs and take part in code and design reviews alongside senior engineers who set the overall technical direction, sharing what you learn with the rest of the team as you go
• Surface ambiguity, risks, and dependencies early with practical options and trade-offs. Maintain clear technical artefacts, such as implementation notes, runbook updates, and documentation, where relevant

Benefits

• Time Off: We offer a 26 day annual leave package, plus public holidays based on your office location (Scotland, England, or the US). You can also enjoy your birthday off on us! And if you’d like some more time to relax or explore you can buy up to 5 extra annual leave days, each year.
• Plan For Your Future: We help you save for the future in a way that works best for you. Through our salary exchange pension scheme, your contributions are taken before tax, making it a more efficient way to plan for your retirement.
• Health and Wellbeing: We provide private healthcare and a hospital cash plan that covers you, your partner and dependants. You’ll also have group life insurance for extra peace of mind, plus discounted gym memberships for your local gym to help you stay active and feel your best.
• Performance Awards & Recognition: We offer an annual ‘Company & Personal Performance Bonus Award’, celebrating both the success of the business and the dedication of the individuals driving it forward.
  We also offer an ‘Employee-Nominated Spot Bonus Award’ receiving recognition from your peers is important and we want you to be able to celebrate each other throughout the year.
• Professional Development: We invest in your growth, offering free accounts to learning platforms such as Udemy & Pluralsight. We want to give you the freedom to learn new skills, deepen your expertise, and stay ahead in your field.- Able to offer practical input into technical designs and reviews
• Able to produce release-ready change evidence, including test results, rollback approach and handover documentation
• Scripting and automation with PowerShell, Bash, Azure CLI and/or Python
• Azure DevOps and Git experience, including YAML pipelines, repositories and pull request workflows
• Working knowledge of Azure networking and identity, including VNets, private endpoints, DNS, Entra ID, RBAC and managed identities
• Able to use approved AI-assisted tooling safely, including validating generated outputs and handling sensitive data appropriately
• Experience testing and validating your own changes and working within peer review and change control processes
• Hands-on Azure experience in a production environment
• Clear technical documentation, and clear communication of progress, risks, and blockers
• Infrastructure-as-code experience, particularly Terraform and Terraform Cloud
• Experience working with internal developer platforms, golden paths or self-service developer tooling
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering workflows beyond basic code completion
• Exposure to or familiarity with Ansible or other configuration-as-code tooling
• Sees work through to completion and keeps others informed along the way
• Thinks in repeatable patterns rather than one-off fixes
• Asks good questions and seeks clarification early rather than guessing
• Contributes to design discussions, asks constructive questions and is open to feedback
• Works effectively across team boundaries with Product Engineering, Cloud Operations and other internal teams
• Adopts new tooling, including AI, where it demonstrably helps, and is comfortable saying where it does not
• Shares knowledge with colleagues and takes part in reviews
• Balances delivery pace against reliability, security and supportability
• Intrinsically driven toward self-improvement
• Happy to be challenged by peers and seniors alike, argue your case on its merits and work with a “best idea wins” mindset