Senior Platform Engineer

Overview

Our client is seeking experienced Platform Engineers / Infrastructure Software Developer.

The team requires engineers who can:

• Analyze complex existing codebases
• Understand how distributed systems operate at enterprise scale
• Improve software architecture and maintainability
• Deliver automation solutions
• Recommend long-term engineering improvements rather than tactical fixes

This is a highly technical role requiring a blend of:

• Software engineering
• Linux systems engineering
• Infrastructure automation
• Platform engineering

• Modernize and refactor internally developed infrastructure tooling
• Analyze existing code and remediate identified issues
• Improve maintainability, scalability, and performance of legacy applications
• Drive engineering best practices across platform development

• Build automation solutions across virtualization and compute environments
• Develop tooling to support platform operations and lifecycle management
• Improve efficiency through automation and orchestration

• Support engineering initiatives across virtualization platforms, compute infrastructure, and server hardware management
• Contribute to enterprise-scale platform improvements

• Improve existing deployment pipelines
• Support modern software delivery practices
• Drive adoption of automation and engineering standards

• Investigate root causes rather than implementing tactical fixes
• Recommend architectural improvements
• Contribute to long-term platform strategy

• Must have strong experience with Python, Perl, object-oriented programming, code refactoring, and software design principles
• Must be comfortable reading large and complex codebases, understanding code written by others, identifying technical debt, and improving existing applications

• Strong understanding of Linux operating systems, Linux development environments, distributed systems, threads and processes, systems performance, and infrastructure architecture
• Must understand how software interacts with underlying infrastructure

• Working knowledge of storage technologies, network protocols, enterprise server infrastructure, and compute environments

• Experience with Jenkins, Git Hub, CI/CD pipelines, source code management, and automated testing

• VMware automation, VMware APIs, vSphere environments, virtualization engineering, enterprise hardware engineering, large-scale data centre environments

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Glasgow, UK

Job Type: Contract