Platform Operations Engineer
Leeds
Platform Operations Engineer
Platform Operations Engineer with 5+ years' experience supporting and automating cloud and on-premise infrastructure within highly available, enterprise-scale environments. Strong background across AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes and DevOps tooling, with a focus on automation, observability, cost optimisation and platform reliability.
Key Skills:
- AWS & Azure Cloud Infrastructure
- Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- Docker & Kubernetes
- Linux & Windows Server Administration
- CI/CD (GitHub, Jenkins)
- Monitoring & Observability (Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch)
- Automation (Bash, PowerShell, Python)
- MySQL, MongoDB & Amazon RDS
- VMware & Nutanix
- DevOps & Platform Operations
Key Impacts:
- Delivered AWS cost optimisation initiatives generating annual savings of £250,000+ across production and non-production environments.
- Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, significantly improving deployment consistency and reducing manual effort.
- Developed automation workflows using Rundeck and Bash scripting, reducing operational overhead and accelerating incident resolution.
- Supported critical 24/7 production platforms while maintaining 99%+ service availability.
- Implemented and maintained enterprise monitoring and observability platforms across Grafana, Prometheus, Dynatrace and ScienceLogic.
- Managed scalable AWS environments and CI/CD pipelines supporting reliable software delivery.
- Acted as primary responder on a 1-in-4 on-call rota, resolving critical incidents and implementing preventative measures to reduce repeat outages.