Senior Platform Engineer

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. Were not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

Role:

You’ll own and evolve a shared Azure platform that several AI and agentic delivery teams build on. This role requires 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, That covers identity, networking, CI/CD, observability and environment management, so teams can ship quickly and safely. You’ll set platform direction, make the key design calls and guide the engineers around you.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build and own shared Azure platform services used by several delivery teams
• Lead infrastructure-as-code with Terraform: reusable modules, standards and clean, repeatable environments
• Build CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps) and golden paths for delivery teams
• Define identity, networking, security and governance baselines
• Set up observability (logs, metrics, traces) and operational tooling
• Work with Tech Leads on their platform needs and trade-offs, and steer the platform roadmap
• Mentor engineers and review their designs and code

Required Experience:

• 8+ years in platform, cloud or infrastructure engineering, with recent senior-level ownership
• Strong hands-on Azure: Entra ID/identity, VNets/networking, policy and governance
• Terraform is mandatory, at production scale, including writing reusable modules
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps
• Kubernetes (AKS) and/or Azure container services
• Observability tools (Azure Monitor, App Insights, OpenTelemetry, etc.)
• Has supported several delivery teams in parallel and can make and defend platform decisions

Desirable Experience:

• Bicep, as well as Terraform
• Platform engineering for AI / ML / LLM workloads on Azure
• Experience building internal developer platforms or golden paths
• Consulting or client-embedded delivery background