Platform Engineer

• Design, build and continuously improve secure, scalable and resilient Microsoft Azure platform services.
• Develop and maintain reusable Infrastructure as Code modules using Terraform, supported by appropriate testing and version-control practices.
• Create and optimise CI/CD pipelines for application, infrastructure and configuration deployments.
• Drive release automation, environment consistency and controlled promotion across the delivery life cycle.
• Implement observability solutions covering logs, metrics, traces, alerting and service-health dashboards.
• Improve platform resilience through capacity planning, failure-mode analysis, backup and recovery controls, and tested operational runbooks.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, architecture guidance, engineering standards and mentoring to delivery teams.
• Partner with security, architecture, application and service-management stakeholders to embed governance without slowing delivery.
• Use practical AI and automation capabilities to improve engineering productivity, operational insight, incident response and platform reliability.
• Support complex production issues, root-cause analysis and continuous improvement, including participation in planned release or support activities when required.

• Strong hands-on experience designing and operating enterprise solutions on Microsoft Azure.
• Advanced Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience, including reusable modules, remote state, policy controls and automated validation.
• Demonstrable experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or comparable enterprise tooling.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, identity and access management, secrets management, security controls and governance.
• Experience implementing observability with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and/or comparable monitoring platforms.
• Proven experience engineering highly available, resilient platforms and supporting disaster recovery, incident response and problem management.
• Hands-on Scripting or programming ability, for example PowerShell, Bash, Python or a comparable language.
• Ability to provide technical thought leadership while remaining actively involved in design, build, troubleshooting and delivery.
• Practical experience applying AI or generative-AI capabilities to software delivery, DevOps, platform operations or engineering productivity.
• Clear communication skills and experience working across multidisciplinary teams in a regulated enterprise environment.

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in banking, insurance, pensions or another regulated financial-services environment.
• Azure certifications such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Experience with containers and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Knowledge of GitOps practices and tools such as Argo CD or Flux.
• Experience with policy-as-code, security scanning, FinOps, service-level objectives and platform engineering/developer self-service patterns.

This is a hybrid role - you can work remotely in the UK and attend the Edinburgh office 3 days per week .

This is a 12 month temporary contract to start ASAP

Day rate: Competitive Market rate

Our client, a leading global supplier for IT services, requires Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer to be based at their client’s office in Edinburgh UK.