Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud/DevOps)

Slalom is a global, human-centric business and technology consulting firm. We specialise in partnering with organisations that aspire to excellence, helping them tackle complex challenges and achieve transformative results through strategy, technology, and business transformation services. By prioritising people, Slalom creates a unique consulting experience, with a team of strategists and engineers delivering practical, end-to-end solutions that drive impactful outcomes for our clients. We empower people and organisations to dream bigger, move faster, and build better tomorrows for all.

Our Platform Engineering team builds secure automation capabilities that enable our application teams and engineers to unveil their products to the world. Our goal is to create platforms that make products smart, secure, and fast, while minimising toil. We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our London practice.

You will be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there. You will build in AWS and have the opportunity to work with Azure on future projects as well as using a wide variety of tools across the DevOps landscape.

Life As a Senior Platform Engineer

As a Platform Engineer, you will implement complex automation tasks and cloud architecture components for a given solution. Your role is to provide velocity for platform and environment enablement for developers through leveraging a DevOps mindset and focus. Specifically, you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure and resilient cloud environments using AWS or Azure.
• Build and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, reliable and repeatable application deployments.
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and automate deployment processes by using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Build and manage containerised applications using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring efficient deployment and scaling.
• Implement end-to-end monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to ensure application health and performance.
• Support development teams with the integration of applications with cloud services.
• Stay current with the latest Cloud technologies, best practices and contribute to team knowledge sharing.
• Promote our people-first mentality, encourage well-being, and be an advocate for diversity & inclusion across our teams.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience designing, building, and deploying scalable solutions in cloud environments such as AWS or Microsoft Azure, including infrastructure-as-code and cloud-native services.
• Good understanding of DevOps principles, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation.
• A good understanding of cloud architecture, services and deployment models.
• Proficient with scripting and automation using PowerShell, Azure CLI or similar tools.
• Working knowledge with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or ARM templates.

We have a question for you - and it’s something we’re passionate about. Can you imagine a world in which you can truly love your life and your work? Well, we have some good news – creating that world and making this vision a reality is what we get out of bed for; it’s our north star.

Deep connections, better outcomes

We have deep relationships with leading technology partners and they love us for our innovative and outcome-based approach. Our people are passionate about solving our clients' problems using the tech that’s the best solution for them. What’s more, we’re there to work side-by-side with our client teams to enable them for success long after we’ve gone. We’re all about momentum that outlasts us.

Flexibility

Life is busy, and we understand that. Our team often juggles work, family, personal commitments, and crucial client obligations. We prioritise supporting our people in balancing what matters to them while ensuring we meet our client commitments. Flexibility is key, as we sometimes need to adapt to meet client needs. This way, our team can work on high-impact projects they’ll love, knowing they have the flexibility to manage their personal and professional lives effectively.

People-first

Great solutions start with great people and those great people are at their best when they’re empowered to be their true authentic selves through leading with kindness, empathy and striving for equity. We’re able to create better experiences for our people and our clients. Our culture encourages passion, adventure, adaptiveness, and diversity of thought. Inclusion, diversity, and equity are top priorities; we have created a community where we empower our team to be the best version of themselves.

Rewards

We offer competitive compensation and benefits, ensuring our packages are fair, competitive, and rewarding. Our dedicated team works with leaders to maintain this standard.

We are Slalom! Slalom is a next-generation professional services company creating value at the intersection of business, technology, and humanity. With our fiercely human approach, we understand our customers—and their customers—to deliver practical, end-to-end solutions that drive meaningful impact. Supported by over 400 technology partners, our 10,000+ team members across 11 countries and 52 offices inspire people and organisations to envision greater possibilities, accelerate progress, and shape a brighter future for everyone.

We’re honoured to be recognized as a great place to work, including Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work for nine years in a row. Read more at slalom.com.

Want to learn more? Why not apply? We would love to hear from you!

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