Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform / Dev Ops Engineer | £70,000 - £80,000 + 10% Bonus | Hybrid Working - Manchester

Here at Burns Sheehan, we are working with one of sport's most recognised organisations as they continue to build out a modern, cloud‑first data platform. Technology is playing an increasingly central role in performance, analytics, and decision‑making across the business, with a clear investment in Azure and data‑driven infrastructure.

They are now looking for a Senior Platform / Dev Ops Engineer to take ownership of their cloud platform, supporting the delivery of advanced analytics capabilities used across both technical and commercial teams. This is a hands‑on role with real influence, sitting at the centre of platform engineering, Dev Ops, and data infrastructure.

You’ll be joining a team building out a highly scalable Azure environment, supporting everything from data pipelines to real‑time analytics and reporting platforms. There is a strong focus on automation, platform reliability, and continuous improvement.

• Design, build, and operate scalable Azure‑based platforms with a focus on resilience, governance, and cost control
• Own infrastructure provisioning and lifecycle management using Terraform
• Lead on CI/CD strategy, implementation, and ongoing optimisation across platform services
• Support and enhance data platforms, including Azure Databricks and associated pipelines
• Implement and manage monitoring and observability tooling (Grafana, Datadog, Elastic)
• Drive improvements across automation, deployment processes, and platform reliability
• Collaborate closely with data and engineering teams to support analytics and reporting use cases
• Contribute to best practices across platform engineering, security, and governance

• Strong experience designing and operating Azure‑based platforms in production environments
• Proven expertise with Infrastructure as Code, ideally Terraform
• Hands‑on experience owning CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes (Azure Dev Ops or Git Hub Actions)
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and exposure to Kubernetes environments
• Strong understanding of identity and access management within cloud platforms
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions
• Strong scripting capability (Python, Bash or similar)

This role sits within a team focused on building advanced analytics capabilities, supporting areas such as performance analysis, reporting, and decision‑making. There is a strong pipeline of work, including the continued development of data platforms and reporting tools, alongside a broader push towards infrastructure as code and platform maturity.

With a key contractor rolling off in the coming months, this hire will play an important role in maintaining momentum and shaping the next phase of platform development.

Sound interesting? Apply today and we’ll be in touch.

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.