Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description

At Octopus, we’re entrepreneurs and we’re investors, on a mission to back the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.

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The Dev Ops team sits within Engineering and will consist of two Dev Ops 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 Sec Ops 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 Sec Ops. 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops 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 Dev Ops scope.

• Prepare and demonstrate cloud architectural designs for new resources and platform changes.

• Investigate production incidents within Dev Ops 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.

Strong commercial experience in a Dev Ops, 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 Power Shell 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.

Experience with Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.

Experience with Docker or container-based delivery models.

Experience supporting AI or data-focused teams with deployment and infrastructure.

Microsoft Certified:
Dev Ops Engineer Expert.

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.

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