Platform Engineer

Work location: Nottingham or Sheffield Hybrid (1 day per week, the current team collaboration day is Wednesday)

Salary:
Up to £70,000

Must be eligible for SC Clearance (UK resident for the last 5 years) and NPPV2 clearance

Here at Littlefish, we look for people who can make a real difference and become a giant slayer. As the world around us continues to change, we look for people who grab that change with optimism and excitement. These are the passionate and high performing people who enjoy and thrive on thinking outside the box.

Our current employees are the giant slayers who have made Littlefish who we are today, and you will be the future employees who continue to add the drive, passion, and add to our skills and experience as we see Littlefish grow.

So, if this is ticking your boxes and you are excited at the thought of working with creative, passionate, energetic, friendly people- we would love to hear from you.

We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, working at the heart of our client environments and cloud platforms.

This is a role for someone who’s just as comfortable deep in IaC, Azure and automation as they are shaping solutions, mentoring engineers, and influencing customers. You’ll play a key part in how we evolve our platform capability — technically and commercially.

You’ll operate as a senior engineer within a client‑aligned team, balancing hands‑on technical delivery with thought leadership and mentoring.

• Designing, building and managing Azure platforms using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or Bicep)
• Owning complex incidents, changes and escalations across customer environments
• Driving improvements in automation, security and platform consistency
• Supporting vulnerability management and security configuration across cloud environments
• Drive observability across cloud services using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and application insights
• Acting as a technical escalation point for engineers across the team
• Contributing to technical roadmaps, best practice and standards
• Leading or supporting onboarding of new customers and complex projects
• Producing design documentation and contributing to pre‑sales and solution shaping
• Building trusted advisor relationships with key customers, helping them get more from their platforms

You’re an experienced infrastructure or platform engineer with a strong Azure and automation background, and you enjoy working across both delivery and design.

• Experience in a platform / infrastructure engineering role
• Strong Azure knowledge across IaaS, PaaS and cloud‑native services
• Hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred, Bicep also considered)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions or similar)
• Solid understanding of:
• Networking and security
• SaaS/PaaS integrations
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Azure Container Apps)
• Strong scripting capability (Power Shell essential)
• Comfortable working across Windows and basic Linux environments
• Experience working within structured environments (incident, change, problem management)

• Familiarity with vulnerability management and security configuration across cloud environments whilst implementing security best practices utilising MS Defender, Entra  & Azure Policy
• Exposure to Kubernetes / AKS
• Experience with Git Ops or automation tooling (e.g. Ansible, Flux, ArgoCD)
• Azure certifications (AZ-104 & AZ‑400 or equivalent is preferable)

• A strong communicator, able to explain technical concepts clearly
• Comfortable mentoring and supporting other engineers
• Able to prioritise and manage multiple work streams

• Referral bonus scheme of £1000 when you successfully refer a friend.
• Access to our Linked In Learning platform, with over 16000 expert‑led online tutorials to enhance and achieve your personal and professional goals.
• Healthcare cash plan. This will give you access to online GP appointments, 24/7 access to qualified counsellors and cash back against a range of general healthcare
• Casual dress policy
• Company Pension Scheme
• Company…