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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Anson McCade
- **Location:** Manchester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £55,000.0 - £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Software Quality, Monitoring of Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Tools, Prometheus, System Availability, Grafana, Terraform, Dynatrace, Devsecops
- **Published:** October 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-platform-engineer/anson-mccade-job108215925

## About the Role

* Strong experience working with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
 * Hands-on DevSecOps engineering experience within enterprise environments
 * Proven Terraform experience building Infrastructure as Code
 * Good understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
 * Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Grafana, Prometheus or similar
 * Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud-native engineering practices
 * Experience supporting live production platforms
 * Comfortable leading technical discussions and mentoring other engineers

## Description

* Designing, building and supporting scalable cloud platforms across AWS and Azure
 * Developing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform across production and non-production environments
 * Driving DevSecOps best practice and improving engineering standards across delivery teams
 * Implementing SRE principles including observability, monitoring, SLIs/SLOs and platform reliability
 * Supporting production environments, incident management and continuous service improvements
 * Mentoring engineers and acting as a technical leader within agile delivery teams
 * Leveraging AI-assisted engineering tools to improve productivity and software quality