Posted 4 weeks ago

Senior Platform/Dev Ops Engineer

Anaplan

Manchester, England, United Kingdom 🇬🇧

Onsite
Full Time
AWS
Azure
Google Cloud
Kubernetes

Apply on source site

We are seeking a Senior Platform Enablement / DevOps Engineer to lead the design, scalability, reliability, and evolution of our enterprise developer platform and cloud-native delivery ecosystem
This role combines deep technical expertise with platform strategy, operational leadership, and engineering enablement. You will help define standards, modernize deployment practices, improve developer experience, and drive platform reliability across multi-cloud environments
Architect, build, and evolve scalable platform engineering and DevOps solutions for enterprise engineering teams
Lead the design and implementation of modern CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Jenkins, Kargo, ArgoCD, GitHub, and related tooling
Drive platform standardization, automation, reliability, and self-service engineering capabilities
Design and manage scalable Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise
Lead Kubernetes platform architecture, Helm-based deployments, and container orchestration best practices
Establish observability standards and operational excellence using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and related tooling
Collaborate with engineering, security, cloud, and architecture teams to improve platform capabilities and developer workflows
Mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering best practices, governance, and technical strategy
Lead incident response, reliability improvements, root cause analysis, and operational maturity initiatives
Improve platform security, scalability, resiliency, and deployment efficiency across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments
Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tooling, and automation opportunities aligned with platform engineering goals
The ideal candidate has strong experience building enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code, observability solutions, and developer enablement capabilities
Strong experience with multi-cloud infrastructure:
Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or related roles
Kubernetes & Helm
OpenTelemetry tooling
Terraform / Terraform Enterprise
Strong scripting/programming experience with Python, Kotlin, Bash, or similar languages
Strong understanding of Linux internals, networking, distributed systems, and platform reliability engineering
GitHub Enterprise
Deep hands-on experience with:
Docker
Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and technical leadership skills
Kargo / ArgoCD
Experience with build and dependency tooling such as Gradle, Poetry, and UV
Experience driving platform modernization and developer enablement initiatives
Strong understanding of observability ecosystems including:
Strong expertise in designing and operating enterprise-scale CI/CD and cloud-native platforms
AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
Jenkins
Loki
Grafana
Prometheus
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
UV, Poetry
Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
Terraform & Terraform Enterprise
Jenkins, Kargo, ArgoCD
Python, Kotlin, Gradle
Linux & Networking
Technologies You’ll Work With
AWS, Azure, GCP
Experience mentoring teams and influencing engineering standards across organizations
Experience building internal developer platforms (IDP) at enterprise scale
Knowledge of modern platform engineering trends, GitOps practices, and cloud-native ecosystems
Exposure to event-driven platform architectures and scalable distributed systems
Experience with platform governance, security, secrets management, and compliance integration