Platform Engineer

About The Role

As a Platform Engineer in the Container Platform Team, you’ll play a key role in developing, improving, and supporting secure, scalable, and automated container platform services — primarily Red Hat Open Shift on AWS. The platform is well-established, and you’ll help ensure it continues to evolve in line with business needs and is consumed in a “Platform as a Product” model.

• Delivering and continually improving our Open Shift platforms on AWS
• Ensuring platform performance, availability, security, and capacity meet business needs.
• Driving automation of platform operations and infrastructure delivery (IaC).
• Supporting the migration and onboarding of services to the container platform.
• Maintaining up-to-date documentation of platform configuration and processes.
• Contributing to roadmap planning and prioritisation.
• Supporting business continuity through resilient platform design.

You’re a hands‑on engineer with a pragmatic mindset and a passion for cloud‑native technologies. You thrive in collaborative environments and enjoy solving complex problems with scalable solutions.

• Strong technical skills and cloud platform knowledge.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving abilities.
• A structured, disciplined approach to planning and delivery.
• Clear, proactive communication — both technical and non‑technical.
• A continuous improvement mindset and eagerness to learn.
• A customer‑focused attitude with an understanding of business priorities.
• Self‑motivation and the ability to work independently or as part of a.
liComfort working in fast‑paced environments and adapting to changing priorities.

• 3+ years in platform engineering or similar roles.
• 2+ years designing, building, configuring, and operating container platforms (Open Shift or Kubernetes).
• Solid experience with public cloud services (AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure).
• Strong Linux knowledge, scripting skills, and significant experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and agile development practices.
• Understanding of enterprise architecture, networking, and distributed systems.
• Awareness of governance, compliance, and security best practices.

Motability Operations is a unique organisation, virtually one of a kind. We combine a strong sense of purpose with a real commercial edge to ensure we provide the best possible worry‑free mobility solutions to over 800,000 customers and their families across the UK. Customers exchange their higher rate mobility allowance to lease a range of affordable vehicles (cars, wheelchair accessible vehicles, scooters, and powered wheelchairs) with insurance, maintenance and breakdown assistance included.

We are the largest car fleet operator in the UK (purchasing around 10% of all the new cars sold in the UK) and work with a network of around 5,000 car dealers and all the major manufacturers. We pride ourselves on delivering outstanding customer service, achieving an independently verified customer satisfaction rating of 9.8 out of 10.

• We find solutions
• We drive change
• We care

We operate hybrid working across the organisation where we split our time between working on‑site at our offices, and at home, remotely within the UK. We believe hybrid working achieves a good work/life balance for our colleagues, allowing us to connect with each other, collaborate on important work, and perform together to deliver for our customers. It allows us to have the flexibility to work remotely up to 2‑days per week whilst also using the great office spaces we have available.

As a Motability Operations team member, you can expect:

• An annual discretionary bonus
• 15% non‑contributory pension (9% non‑contributory pension during probation period)
• Life assurance at 4 times your basic salary to give you peace of mind that your loved ones will receive some financial help
• Employee Discount Scheme with a huge number of retailers and an app to save on the go
• Discounted Electric/Hybrid Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Access to the Cycle to Work Scheme (we have showers, changing rooms and secure bike sheds on site)

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