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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Monitoring of Systems, Cloud Services, Data Logging, Cloud Platform System, Terraform, Dynatrace, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 30, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-platform-engineer/anson-mccade-job108059348

## About the Role

Experience you'll need as a Senior Platform Engineer

 * 5 years strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and core cloud services.
 * Hands-on experience in DevSecOps engineering within cloud-native environments.
 * Proven experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code across non-production and production environments.
 * Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, resilience, and reliability.
 * Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace or similar.
 * Experience supporting production platforms including incident and problem management.
 * Exposure to AIOps practices and automation for proactive issue detection and resolution.
 * Ability to work in client-facing environments and travel as required.
 * Experience mentoring or supporting junior engineers.

## Description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join a global technology and engineering consultancy. This position is responsible for delivering and supporting cloud platform engineering solutions across large-scale client environments.

Working within established engineering practices and frameworks, you will help build, operate, and improve cloud-native platforms, ensuring reliability, security, and performance. You will collaborate with engineering teams and clients to deliver high-quality digital products and support continuous improvement across platform services., * Deliver and support cloud platform engineering solutions across client environments.

 * Design services with a reliability mindset, using SLIs, SLOs, and observability practices.
 * Implement and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across environments.
 * Support incident management, problem management, and continuous improvement of production platforms.
 * Contribute to observability solutions including logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerting.
 * Support DevSecOps practices across cloud-native platforms at scale.
 * Participate in post-incident reviews and drive service improvements.
 * Adopt AI-assisted engineering practices to improve delivery quality and speed.
 * Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical standards and engineering communities.