Senior Platform Engineer

Cheshire West and Chester
4 days ago
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Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

📝 Contract Type: Contract

🏢 Office Location: Cheshire

🕔 Working Hours: 08:00 - 19:00, shifts.

🕵🏻 What to wear: Smart casual

The Role:

As a Senior Platform Engineer you are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the cloud infrastructure and platform services that support our software. This role requires deep expertise in cloud computing, Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) containerization, and DevOps practices, ensuring that platforms are scalable, secure, and optimized for performance. The Senior Platform Engineer will work closely with cross-functional teams to drive best practices, contribute to system architecture, and provide technical leadership in platform engineering.

Role Responsibilities:

Azure Services & Infrastructure:

  • Lead the design, deployment, and management of Azure-based infrastructure, leveraging both PaaS and IaaS solutions.

  • Optimize cloud infrastructure for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.

  • Implement and manage Azure-based services to support software applications, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery capabilities.

    Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):

  • Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, ensuring smooth and automated deployment processes.

  • Implement monitoring solutions (e.g., Azure Monitor, Grafana) to track the health and performance of platform services.

  • Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Bicep, and ARM templates to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure.

    Collaboration & Communication:

  • Work closely with system architects, platform engineers, and product owners to understand business objectives and ensure platform alignment with those goals.

  • Proactively communicate project status, technical issues, and solutions to team members and stakeholders.

  • Contribute to knowledge-sharing initiatives within and outside the team, including leading technical sessions and brown-bag events.

    Containerization:

  • Ensure the efficient use of containerization to support application development, deployment, and scaling.

    Technical Leadership:

  • Lead technical decision-making processes, driving best practices in platform engineering and cloud architecture.

  • Mentor junior engineers, providing guidance on technical challenges and professional development.

  • Identify and address technical debt, making strategic recommendations for improvements to systems and processes.

    Skills, Knowledge & Experience

    Required:

  • Extensive experience Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or similar role, particularly with Azure services and infrastructure.

  • Proven expertise in containerization and orchestration.

  • Hands-on experience with DevOps practices, including DevOps tools (Azure DevOps, Terraform, Bicep), CI/CD pipeline management (YAML), monitoring, logging, alerts and Infrastructure as Code.

  • A strong understanding of backend development using .NET Core, SQL Server, Web API.

    Preferred:

  • Azure certification, such as Azure Solution Architect, Azure DevOps Engineer, or Azure Administrator.

  • Experience in contributing to system architecture and building scalable, robust systems.

  • Familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2).

  • Familiarity with Azure technologies such as App Services, Front Door, Logic Apps, Service Bus.

    Experience with automated testing frameworks and practices.

    The Interview Process

    ☎️ Screening call: Phone call with our recruitment team to assess your suitability for the role, but also if the role is right for you.

    🚀 First interview: A video call over MS Teams with the hiring manager.

    🤝🏻 Second interview: A video call over MS Teams with the hiring manager.

    To be considered for this position, you must have full rights to work in the UK.

    About Acora

    We’ve been on a mission to improve end user satisfaction since the day we were founded over 25 years ago. As champions of premium experience-led IT services, it is who we are. We constantly challenge old assumptions and inherited wisdom, and demonstrate there are other, better ways to do things.

    Our mission is to unleash the potential of people through amazing IT experiences.

    At Acora, we live by three key and simple values that drive everything we do guiding our actions, shaping our culture, and ensuring we deliver excellence every step of the way.

    #1 BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE

    We challenge ourselves to raise our game each day. By embracing a mindset of growth, we continuously strive to improve ourselves, our ways of working, and the service we deliver to our customers.

    #2 WE DO WHAT WE SAY

    When we make a promise, we follow-through - no excuses. We don’t leave anyone hanging or walk away from challenges. Reliable and focused, we value clear communication to build trust and give customers, and colleagues, the confidence they can count on us every time.

    #3 TOGETHER WE WIN

    Business is the biggest team sport of them all. By communicating well, breaking down silos and staying aligned, we create clarity and focus. Strong relationships, shared goals and commitment make us a winning team – for each other and for our customers.

    Equal Opportunities at Acora

    Acora is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal opportunities regardless of race or ethnic origin, gender identity, family situation, sexual orientation, disability, religion or age. We hire our people on the basis of qualifications, merit, skills, and business need.

    We are a Level 1 Disability Confident Committed Employer and will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request any reasonable adjustments.

    Join us at Acora in creating a workplace where everyone can succeed and make an impact. We look forward to welcoming you to our team

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