Senior Platform Engineer, Octopus Investments

• ✅ Strong commercial experience in a DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or similar role
• ✅ Experience building, running, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with minimal supervision
• ✅ Strong experience working with Azure cloud services
• ✅ Experience using Git-based source control, branching strategies, and version control practices
• ✅ Experience writing and troubleshooting Bash and/or PowerShell scripts
• ✅ Good understanding of observability concepts including metrics, logs, alerting, and operational visibility
• ✅ Good understanding of Linux fundamentals, including scripting, file handling, text processing, system administration, and process management
• ✅ Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases such as MSSQL, MySQL, SQLite, MongoDB, and Cosmos DB
• ✅ Experience of Terraform and the ability to create and maintain reusable modules
• We encourage you to apply even if you don’t tick every box. What’s the worst that can happen?
• This role will evolve as we grow and develop. So, if you are looking for a challenge in a fast paced and dynamic business, we can deliver on that

Desirable

• The DevOps team sits within Engineering and will consist of two DevOps Engineers in total and is responsible for supporting secure, reliable, and scalable engineering delivery across the business
• The team supports four development teams as well as the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs
• It also works closely with the Infrastructure and SecOps teams to maintain services, improve operational resilience, and ensure engineering environments remain secure, stable, and effective
• The Senior Platform Engineer plays an important role within the Engineering team and the wider business by enabling safe, reliable, and efficient software delivery in a regulated environment
• This role is central to the ongoing operation and improvement of CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability, and engineering platform support
• The role works closely with peers in Engineering, technical leads, solution architects, test managers, the AI team, Infrastructure, and SecOps. It is important to both day-to-day delivery and longer-term improvement of engineering practices, helping teams release software more effectively while maintaining strong standards for security, quality, operational control, and cloud architecture
• Build, maintain, and improve CI/CD pipelines across products and teams
• Lead software deployment, release automation, and environment management in Azure
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code approaches, including Terraform modules where appropriate
• Provide DevOps support to four development teams and the AI team for deployment and infrastructure needs
• Support the PSS team when needed on platform, deployment, and operational issues within DevOps scope
• Lead, support, and drive the further development, rollout, and adoption of the Internal Developer Platform (IDP), helping shape shared tooling, templates, and engineering standards across teams
• Monitor platform health, identify issues early, and support operational incident resolution within DevOps scope
• Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes
• Investigate production incidents within DevOps scope, identify root cause, and drive resolution and improvement actions
• Track release dates, gather feedback from technical leads, and help ensure deployments are smooth, secure, and automated with appropriate approval checks