Platform Engineer waystone Platform & Infrastructure not stated ago

Mid-level Platform & Infrastructure role ds
· full-time.

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• Build reusable Terraform infrastructure patterns, mainly for Azure, while supporting AWS and OCI environments
• Automate infrastructure delivery and configuration with the listed pipeline and management tools
• Help development teams get independent environments and smoother deployments while preserving security controls
• Keep Azure Kubernetes workloads and Windows and Linux infrastructure reliable through support, upgrades and patching
• Improve monitoring, incident response, recovery testing and compliance records across the platform

• At least three years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops or a comparable role, or equivalent practical experience alongside a degree
• Strong Azure and AWS infrastructure design experience, with hands-on Terraform expertise
• Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, plus Windows cloud administration and Linux fundamentals
• Power Shell or similar scripting ability, with knowledge of cloud security, access management and network security

This mid-level role suits an engineer comfortable working across infrastructure, automation and operational support, including guidance for junior colleagues. You’ll attend the Leeds office once a month and join the required on-call rota. The team expects engineers to balance project work with operational commitments and work independently across competing priorities.

Waystone is a leading provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry. With over 25 years’ experience, we support many of the world’s largest asset managers, providing a comprehensive range of specialist services from a global network of offices.

The Platform Engineering team builds and operates Waystone’s engineering platform, spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, on-call and our internal developer portal. We provide the secure, automated foundations that the firm’s regulated services run on. We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale this platform through standardised, automated and compliant patterns, accelerating delivery for our development delivery teams while raising operational resilience across the estate.

We are a cross-skilled team by design: rather than narrow specialisation, we want every engineer able to work across the platform, giving us broader coverage, resilience and shared ownership.

• Take ownership of larger, moderately complex pieces of platform work, setting objectives and delivering against project goals with a direct impact on team results.
• Design, implement and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure patterns and reusable Terraform modules across Azure, AWS and OCI, with a primary focus on Azure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) libraries to ensure consistent, compliant and repeatable environments across all cloud providers.
• Build and support CI/CD and deployment automation using Git Hub Actions, Octopus Deploy and ArgoCD, and configuration management using Ansible and Octopus Deploy.
• Support and enable development delivery teams – provisioning autonomous environments and reducing deployment friction while maintaining guardrails and separation of duties.
• Provide operational support for containerised and micro-service workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), maintaining high availability and reliability.
• Manage core infrastructure lifecycle tasks – vulnerability remediation and patching, upgrades, scaling and decommissioning across the Windows and Linux estate.
• Drive the adoption of cloud governance policies, security…