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About the Role

The Senior Platform Engineer plays an important role within the Engineering team and the wider business by enabling safe, reliable, and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment. This role is central to the ongoing operation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and engineering platform support.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams.
• Lead software deployment, release automation, and environment management in Azure.
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, including Terraform modules where appropriate.
• Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs.
• Support the PSS team when needed on platform, deployment, and operational issues within DevOps scope.
• Lead, support, and drive the further development, rollout, and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), helping shape shared tooling, templates, and engineering standards across teams.
• Monitor platform health, identify issues early, and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope.
• Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes.
• Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope, identify root cause, and drive resolution and improvement actions.
• Track release dates, gather feedback from technical leads, and help ensure deployments are smooth, secure, and automated with appropriate approval checks.

Requirements

• Strong commercial experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or similar role.
• Experience building, running, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision.
• Strong experience working with Azure cloud services.
• Experience using Git-based source control, branching strategies, and version control practices.
• Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts.
• Good understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerting, and operational visibility.
• Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including scripting, file handling, text processing, system administration, and process management.
• Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and Cosmos DB.
• Experience of Terraform and the ability to create and maintain reusable modules.

Skills

• Azure DevOps
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Container-based delivery models

Work Type

• Flexible working
• The option to work overseas up to a month per year

Experience Level

• Senior

Education Level

• Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert

Salary/Compensations

• A competitive salary, bonus, pension and share incentive plan

Benefits

• Take what you need holiday
• Anchor (our wellness hub) which includes Headspace, one to one coaching through Sanctus, Parent Cloud, Digital GP, Shout & more
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Life insurance, critical illness cover and income protection
• Private medical insurance for you and your family
• Electric vehicle leasing

About the Company

• At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.
• We think working here is great, but we’re understandably bias.
• At our core, we believe that how a company behaves is just as important as what it does.
• That’s why we chose to become an accredited B Corp (the equivalent of a Fairtrade coffee stamp but for companies) and to change our Articles of Association so that the interests all our stakeholders – employees, customers, communities, environment and shareholders – are considered in every decision we make.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to building a workplace where diversity is valued, and inclusion is a priority.
• By providing equal opportunities for growth and development, we embrace and celebrate all races, genders, religions, sexual orientations, ages, disabilities, and socio-economic backgrounds.
• We believe teams achieve their best when every member feels safe, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
• We're proud to be disability confident and are committed to supporting candidates with a disability, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, throughout the recruitment process.
• Applicants are welcome to opt-in to the disability confident scheme as part of our application process.
• If you require any adjustments to the interview process, we’ll be happy to accommodate where possible.