Senior Platform Engineer

You will play your part in operating the platform aligned to our approach of “you build it, you run it” with multi-disciplinary teams. You will be coding daily and be expected to scale yourself through others. You will bring the expertise of Platform Engineering to Connells, upskilling staff and hiring into gaps. A goal of the platform is to scale through automation, so the team is expected to be lean with a handful of matrix managed engineers with a diversity of skills.

Working with your colleagues in site reliability, onboarding, architecture and delivery and directed by the overall Platform Lead, you will be an essential engineering leader helping make this critical platform hosting all of Connells digital journeys, a success.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will be responsible for building and enhancing the ConnellsX Platform. Your success and that of the platform’s is closely coupled to the success of your customer - the engineering teams running their services on it. Your customer focus and data-informed approach drives your day-to-day and strategic decision making.

Please note that we are unfortunately unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.

You will be a hands-on and customer focused engineering servant-leader. You will be comfortable moving across orchestration, automation, pipelines, cloud services, observability and security domains (even if you are not an expert in them all). A non-negotiable is experience and familiarity with Microsoft Azure.

• Understanding of cloud networking concepts (VNets, subnets, NSGs, etc.)
• Experience integrating Terraform into CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.)
• Knowledge of core services (Virtual Networks, VMs, Storage, App Services, etc.)
• Previous experience with Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools
• Deep understanding of Azure Terraform provider capabilities and limitations
• Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience optimising cloud spend and resource efficiency
• Understanding of ARM templates and resource management
• Experience with Azure AD, RBAC, Key Vault, and security best practices
• Experience using PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash for automation tasks
• Advanced knowledge of Terraform syntax, modules, state management, workspaces, and backend configuration
• Knowledge of security best practices for cloud environments
• Proficiency with Git workflows (branching, merging, pull requests)

We offer a hybrid working arrangement with 1 or 2 days per week in our MK office.