Platform Engineering Lead

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineering Lead (contract) to support the evolution of our cloud and application delivery strategy as we modernise our deployment, integration, and operational capabilities.

This role will focus on building scalable, secure, and automated platform services that improve developer productivity, deployment consistency, operational resilience, and software delivery across engineering teams.

The successful candidate will play a key role in transitioning from traditional infrastructure deployments toward modern cloud-native and platform engineering practices.

Security will be a core component of the role, ensuring that platform services, deployment pipelines, and engineering standards are designed with secure-by-default principles. The role will help embed Dev Sec Ops  practices across the software delivery lifecycle, ensuring security controls are automated, repeatable, and integrated into engineering workflows rather than applied retrospectively.

The role will also contribute to the development of platform security standards and recommendations, supporting secure application delivery, cloud governance, identity management, secrets handling, and compliance requirements across engineering environments.

In addition, the role will support secure collaboration models for internal engineering teams, third-party development partners, and external data providers, ensuring appropriate identity management, access controls, environment segregation, and secure integration practices are implemented across platform services and delivery pipelines.

• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, or similar tooling
• Implement automated multi-stage deployment pipelines across development, test, UAT, and production environments
• Support blue/green and phased deployment strategies
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform and/or Bicep
• Build reusable infrastructure templates and standardised deployment patterns
• Support cloud-native services and event-driven architectures using Azure technologies
• Implement security controls within CI/CD pipelines including code scanning, dependency validation, secrets detection, and policy enforcement
• Support secure identity, access control, and secrets management practices across cloud platforms and deployment pipelines
• Support secure collaboration and integration with internal teams, third-party development partners, and external data providers
• Contribute to platform security recommendations, engineering governance, and secure deployment standards
• Support security testing and validation activities within pre-production and UAT environments
• Contribute to platform architecture standards, engineering governance, and future technology strategy
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational resilience practices aligned to SRE principles
• Support operational stability, incident management, and platform optimisation initiatives

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Bicep)
• Automation and scripting (Power Shell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with Azure Service Bus and serverless technologies
• Security and Dev Sec Ops  practices
• Experience implementing security controls within CI/CD pipelines
• Identity and access management experience
• Monitoring, logging, and operational support experience
• Experience working within cloud-native or platform engineering environments
• Git Ops practices
• SRE / reliability engineering experience
• Experience defining platform standards and reference architectures
• Knowledge of security tooling including SAST/DAST, vulnerability scanning, and policy-as-code frameworks

• You will be expected to be onsite 2 days per week in Liverpool