Platform Engineer

Salary: £57,000 - 96,000 per year

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in systems engineering and cloud platforms, with a track record of successfully managing and optimizing complex infrastructure.
• In-depth knowledge of Infrastructure as Code tools and containerization technologies, including Terraform, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Strong background in implementing and managing security measures and compliance frameworks, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of data.
• Proficiency in DevOps methodologies, including CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance, automation, monitoring, and Git versioning.
• Experience with enterprise load balancers and/or web application firewalls.
• Understanding of the TCP/IP stack and TCP/IP troubleshooting.
• Basic IP routing and subnetting knowledge.
• Good knowledge of REST APIs and API authentication.
• Experience packaging/building source code, for example .NET, Python, or Java.
• Solid understanding of architecture and design principles, with the ability to create scalable, resilient, and cost-effective solutions.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and document technical processes clearly.
• Demonstrated experience in gathering initial requirements from third-party teams or internal stakeholders and translating them into actionable plans.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.
• Desirable: experience with networking components such as NetScaler, Apigee, Cloudflare, Akamai, or Kubernetes networking.
• Desirable: experience with edge computing or hybrid cloud.
• Desirable: familiarity with FinOps or cloud cost optimization.
• Desirable: AI/ML infrastructure support, such as MLOps pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of our groups vision for developer self-service, containerisation, golden templates, and automation.
• Work with internal developer platforms such as Backstage, Kubernetes, CI/CD tools, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code across on-premise and public cloud environments.
• Apply cloud platform expertise across Azure and other major cloud services, including IaaS and PaaS offerings.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform.
• Manage configuration using tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
• Work with Docker and container lifecycle management.
• Operate and support Kubernetes architecture and deployments, including Helm charts and Kustomize.
• Implement security and compliance controls, including IAM and secrets management.
• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrate GitOps practices.
• Support monitoring and observability using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Datadog.
• Use scripting and event-driven automation to improve platform delivery.
• Design scalable, resilient, and cost-effective platform solutions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with architecture, development, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to incident response and postmortem analysis.
• Gather requirements from stakeholders and translate them into actionable plans.

Technologies

• AI
• API
• Apigee
• Ansible
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Datadog
• DevOps
• Docker
• ELK
• Git
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• IAM
• IaaS
• Support
• Java
• Kubernetes
• PaaS
• Prometheus
• Puppet
• Python
• REST
• Security
• TCP/IP
• Terraform
• Web
• ASP.NET
• AWS
• ArgoCD
• Bash
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Load Balancing
• PowerShell
• Serverless
• microservices

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We are Markerstudy Insurance Services Limited, one of the largest Managing General Agents in the UK, with a strong presence in the UK motor insurance market. We specialise in niche motor cover and use our underwriting expertise to create highly targeted products. Our business is built on strong relationships with UK insurance intermediaries, and our products appear on major comparison sites through our broker partners. This is a 6 month fixed term Platform Engineer role, and we offer remote working with the option of a hybrid approach from our offices in Manchester, Stoke, Peterborough, Sunderland, Chesterfield, and Tunbridge Wells.

last updated 23 week of 2026