Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineer will be an active, hands-on contributor during a period of business restructure, supporting the implementation and modernisation of the company's cloud infrastructure and platform services. The role focuses on improving reliability, performance, scalability, security and developer experience, enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly and safely. You will work closely with platform and engineering teams to implement agreed designs, owning platform components across build, operation and continuous improvement, and using automation and modern practices to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. We are primarily Azure-based, with a small footprint in AWS.

What you'll be doing to make a difference:

Build and run internal platform infrastructure

• Build, operate and maintain resilient, scalable platform foundations across environments, working from agreed designs and standards.

Operate cloud infrastructure and automation

• Support and run services on Azure and AWS, applying least-privilege access, audited controls and automation as standard.

Improve developer experience

• Implement deployment workflows, self-service capabilities, golden paths and reusable templates that help teams ship safely and efficiently.

Infrastructure as Code

• Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with modular, DRY patterns, appropriate testing and CI/CD integration.

Platform reliability, scalability and security

• Apply SRE principles in day-to-day work, supporting capacity planning, reliability improvements and secure-by-default patterns.

Observability and incident response

• Implement logging, metrics and tracing.

Create dashboards and alerts.

• Participate in on-call rotations and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement.

Cross-team collaboration

• Work closely with development, security and operations teams to deliver platform capabilities, execute agreed priorities and manage operational risk effectively., * Hands on experience operating and supporting workloads on Azure or AWS, including troubleshooting and production support.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Solid understanding of microservices based and distributed systems, and how they are deployed using containerised, serverless and VM based models.

• Experience implementing and operating Terraform in multi zone production environments, using modular, DRY designs, secure state backends, and working with both greenfield and existing (brownfield) infrastructure.
• Good understanding of container lifecycles, image creation, networking and secure deployment automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) covering build, test, security scanning, Terraform deployments, and secure artifact and secret management.
• Comfortable scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Includes alerting best practices and troubleshooting using logs, metrics and traces.

Tech Stack- Containerisation, microservices, Terrarform, Azure, AWS, GitHub actions, * Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus.

• Experience with a general-purpose language such as Python is beneficial.
• Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs and SLAs is desirable.

Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux, including environment promotion and drift management.

Pulled from the full job description

• Employee discount
• Sick pay
• Employee assistance programme
• Private dental insurance
• Company pension
• Private medical insurance
• Work from home, Whilst we value professional experiences and qualifications, we're committed to maintaining a culture of growth and development here at Radar Healthcare. We take into account each candidates demonstrable skillset, drive and ethos so even if you don't feel 100% qualified for the role - we welcome you to connect with us. We'd love to hear from passionate candidates from all backgrounds that align themselves with our company values and are excited to make a difference in healthcare!

What we offer in return...

A competitive salary of up to £60,000 per year, dependent on experience

Values-led culture - we're extremely proud of our culture. Learn more about what makes it special here

Flexible working - We believe in empowering our team to work in a way that suits them best. Whether you're an early bird or prefer working from home most of the time, we trust you to get the job done around our core hours. We have a base expectation of 1 day per month in the office but outside of this, although we have a fantastic office in the heart of Leeds (complete with a rooftop bar for the summer months), the choice is yours!

️ 25 days holiday (+ bank holidays) continually increasing with service, plus the option to buy up to a week to suit whatever exotic adventures or big life events you have planned for the year ahead

Birthdays off and a surprise through the letterbox - we love to make a song and dance about every year around the sun!

Charity leave - giving back is important to us, so we empower all our team members to support charity every year on company time

Mental healthcare - Face to face counselling support, an app, and an Employee Assistance Program and many colleagues trained in mental health first aid

️ Healthcare - Cover with Medicash, you get money back when you spend on health appointments e.g. physio, dental, optician, prescriptions, private GP + more

Life cover - a pay-out of 3x your salary to support your beneficiaries if the worst happened

Compassionate leave of up to 5 days time off if you lose a loved one

Paid sick leave - Enhanced sick pay after 6 months (increasing with service)

Enhanced family leave - Primary caregivers (maternity/adoption); 16 weeks full pay, 10 weeks half pay & secondary caregivers (paternity); 2 weeks full pay and another 2 weeks full pay to take in your new arrivals first year of life (once you have been with us for 1 year)

Pension - We're invested in your future, we contribute 3% of your salary to your pension pot, helping you save up for those golden years!

Technology - Rest assured, we'll have a laptop all set up and ready for you on your first day. Additionally, in your first week, we'll conduct a WFH risk assessment to ensure you have everything you need, including a second screen, keyboard, mouse, and any other goodies!

Dog friendly office

Socials - we get together as a full company at least four times per year, plus at least once a quarter in individual teams, too. Not including all the fun activities being planned by our newly formed social committee.

Discounts on cinema, vouchers, gym memberships, days out and much much more

Radar Healthcare is dedicated to improving patient safety by bringing together the expertise of healthcare professionals and the power of intuitive software. Our innovative platform has been developed in partnership with industry experts to ensure organisations always meet regulatory standards - making it easier than ever for healthcare providers to deliver top-quality care to their patients. We're on a mission to become a world-leading health-tech pioneer, and we know that we can only achieve this with the help of talented individuals like you. If you're passionate about improving healthcare outcomes and want to work in a team of like-minded individuals, we invite you to join us on our journey. So if you're up for an exciting challenge and want to be part of a team that's making a real impact, we'd love to hear from you!, At Radar Healthcare, we understand and celebrate the fact that our people are our best assets! We are proud to showcase our diverse and passionate talent that encapsulates our vision, purpose and values in our shared mission of innovation in healthcare. We're an ambitious but caring team, and so supporting our colleagues and partners is always a top priority. Not to mention, we're not all work and no play - we love getting together to celebrate our achievements together in various settings, whether it be our winter and summer socials, our people-led full company days, team get togethers or simply just interacting and supporting one another over coffee breaks either remotely or in person at our amazing Leeds office. "We're also super proud to be Great Place to Work-Certified, based on outstanding feedback directly from our team earlier this year, with 91% of the team agreeing that they "would strongly endorse my company to friends and family as a great place to work" Not to mention Radar Healthcare has been named one of the UK's Top 100 Companies to Work For 2025, one of the Top 20 Tech Companies to Work For, and has received a Two Star Accreditation from Best Companies, recognising 'Outstanding' levels of workplace engagement.""