Senior Platform Engineer

Big Hand offers technology solutions for busy legal professionals that provide data and insights to increase value and profits. Through our expert knowledge and innovative technology, we enable our customers to achieve enhanced efficiency, better decision‑making and harness their competitive edge.

We build with tomorrow in mind, transforming ideas into action and empowering our customers to succeed in a world of constant change. We make big happen for our customers.

We are a business driven by our values and have these at the centre of everything we do. Our Big Handers are dedicated to building a culture where We Win Together, We Love to Learn, We Do the Right Thing, We Own It and We Find the Fun.

As a Platform/Dev Ops Engineer, you will be working with a team of great engineers, delivery managers and architects on several topics i.e., Cloud Platform Design, On‑prem to Cloud Migration, Automated Deployment, Infrastructure Provisioning, Security Testing and many more.

You will work on different Platform Engineering, Platform Operations and Platform Security projects and collaborate with Product, Architecture and Software Engineering teams to deliver secure products and cloud platforms to support company wide OKRs and initiatives.

You will contribute to Big Hand Platform Engineering, Operations and security research and bring new knowledge inside the company.

• Champion Dev Sec Ops : Promote secure ways of working and best practice across your team and the wider business. Build security into every stage of the project lifecycle.

• Drive our cloud journey: Move on‑prem services to a multi‑region, highly available Azure platform (PaaS and IaaS). Help build our Azure landing zone and grow our container setup on Azure Kubernetes and Docker.

• Automate and build reusable tooling: Automate manual build, release and operations work. Extend and secure our Terraform and Power Shell module library, and create reusable templates for the wider engineering team.

• Keep global platforms healthy: Set up and manage monitoring, enterprise‑grade dashboards and usage and uptime reporting, so issues and risks are found and fixed quickly.

• Own incidents and maintenance: Prioritise incidents to meet SLAs, find root causes and fix them. Take part in planned maintenance during business hours and out of hours.

• Collaborate and keep improving: Work with developers, architects, platform engineers and IT operations to design and deliver secure, compliant products. Write clear operational and security guides, and keep improving our processes, tools and cloud costs.

What we’re looking for

• Azure expertise: Hands‑on experience with Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS across compute, networking, security and data. You’ll have built Azure Landing Zones with the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and led multi‑region migrations from on‑prem, covering rehosting, re‑platforming and refactoring, not just lift and shift.

• Infrastructure as Code and automation: Strong Terraform skills, plus scripting in Power Shell, Bash, SQL, KQL and Packer. Experience with Azure Dev Ops YAML pipelines and CI/CD is essential, including building security and code quality tools into those pipelines.

• Containers: Experience setting up, automating and supporting Kubernetes and Docker environments, ideally on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

• Security engineering: Hands‑on experience with WAF, security logging, monitoring and alerting, privileged access management, secrets management and vulnerability management. You’ll also know security scanning tools (SAST, DAST, open‑source and container scanning) and how to apply security controls across data, infrastructure and applications.

• Resilience and delivery: Experience with business continuity (BCP)…