Senior Platform Engineer, On the Beach
DevEx and Cloud Ops
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2 days a week in office (Manchester City Centre, Manchester)
A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
Posted today
A product led tech company specialising in the travel sector
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Share Incentive Plan
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Manchester City Centre, Manchester)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To become Europe’s biggest and most loved online retailer of beach holidays.
Role
Who you are
- Depending on your background, you may naturally lean more towards areas such as AWS and cloud infrastructure, developer experience, CI/CD, internal tooling, reliability or automation. We don’t expect every Platform Engineer to be an expert in everything
- What matters most is that you understand modern platform engineering and enjoy solving problems that make engineering teams faster, cheaper, safer and more effective
- We’re looking for an experienced engineer with a strong background in platform, cloud, infrastructure or developer tooling
- You’ll ideally have experience working with AWS and modern cloud-native environments, along with some combination of infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, automation and developer tooling
- You don’t need to have worked with every technology we use. We’re much more interested in your ability to understand complex systems, make sensible engineering trade-offs and build solutions that other engineers genuinely want to use
- You should be comfortable working across team boundaries, taking ambiguous problems and turning them into practical solutions
- We’d also like you to be someone who thinks beyond simply keeping infrastructure running. Great platform engineering should improve the experience of the engineers using it
- You’ll care about areas such as:
- AWS and cloud-native engineering
- Infrastructure as code and automation
- CI/CD and software delivery
- Developer tooling and self-service platforms
- Kubernetes and containerised environments
- Observability, reliability and incident management
- Security and sensible engineering guardrails
- Cloud cost and FinOps
- AI-assisted engineering and automation
- Mentoring and sharing knowledge with other engineers
What the job involves
- You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, automation and operational engineering to help our product teams build, deploy and operate software more effectively
- AI is also changing how software is built, and we want our platform to evolve alongside it
- You’ll have the opportunity to explore how AI-assisted tooling can remove friction, improve engineering workflows and support new ways of working. The existing draft already makes this a significant part of the role
- You’ll work closely with engineers across Product Engineering, Digital Workplace and InfoSec to understand problems and turn them into simple, scalable platform solutions. That cross-team element is already one of the strongest parts of the current description
- Your work could include improving self-service tooling, building reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns, developing CI/CD capabilities, improving cloud reliability and scalability, reducing developer friction, and helping teams better understand the performance and cost of the systems they operate
- You’ll also contribute to observability, security and FinOps, helping us balance reliability, performance, security and cloud cost
- As part of supporting the reliability of our cloud platform, there may also be occasional on-call responsibilities to help monitor systems and respond to issues when required
- As a Senior Engineer, you’ll be trusted to take ownership of complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions and help shape how our platform evolves
- You’ll also support other engineers through pairing, code reviews, technical discussions and knowledge sharing
- This is an opportunity to have a genuine impact on how engineering works at On the Beach
- Rather than supporting a single product area, the things you build can improve how teams across the organisation develop and operate software
- You’ll have space to experiment with new technologies and approaches, while keeping a pragmatic focus on reliability, security, cost and business value. That balance is already well expressed in the existing draft
- You’ll also have the opportunity to help shape what modern platform engineering looks like for us as our cloud estate, internal tooling and use of AI continue to evolve
Application process
- We’ll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre
Our take
With around 80% of UK citizens’ holidays booked online, On The Beach has become a challenger brand in the beach and package holiday sector. With around two million people using its platform to book their holidays abroad, it utilises brand partnerships to provide a wealth of discounts and deals for holidaymakers.
Having entered the London Stock Exchange in 2015, On The Beach has grown its brand since 2004. It shows no signs of slowing down either, with revenue surging in 2025 to set the company up for a new objective. It will now use its growing AI toolkit to disrupt the cruise holiday market, a fast-growing travel sector that the company has not yet capitalised on.
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Company benefits
- 📅25 days holiday
- 🥳 An extra day off on your birthday!
- 💷Option to buy extra annual leave
- Discount on holidays.. Plus two bonus days off (a take-off and landing day) to start and end your On the Beach holiday in the right way!
- Flexible working hours and hybrid working
- Access to Learnerbly learning platform
- With a personal allowance to support your own personal development
- Family friendly policies
- Including enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly support
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Including access to free counselling and GP appointments
- Share Incentive Plan (SIP)
- Onsite subsidised coffee shop
- Sandbox (our very own bar)
- Gym discounts
- Food and drink discounts
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme
- Simplyhealth Optimise Health Plan
Company HQ
Manchester, UK
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Leadership
Shaun Morton
(CEO)Previously CFO at On The Beach, Director of Finance at ghd and a Senior Manager of Commercial Finance at Asda.
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