Platform Engineer

Every lap in Formula 1 generates vast amounts of data. Every decision ‑ from car setup to race strategy ‑ depends on software that can process, move, and surface that data at speed. Without the right platform underneath, none of it works. Alpine F1 Team’s Platform Engineering function builds and operates the foundations that the rest of engineering relies on: infrastructure, delivery pipelines, observability, and the services that keep our software teams moving fast and shipping safely. The team sits within Alpine’s Software Engineering & Data group and works closely with stream‑aligned development teams to understand their needs and remove friction.

The Platform team includes Platform Engineers and Data Engineers — covering infrastructure, delivery tooling, and the data pipelines that feed both our software products and AI capabilities. You’ll work alongside both, across the breadth of platform engineering rather than specialising in a single domain. The role carries real ownership ‑ you’ll have a direct hand in the infrastructure, tooling, and practices that the rest of engineering depends on every day. The teams you serve include Software Engineers building the applications that support car development and race operations, and AI Engineers pushing the boundaries of what we can extract from our data. Your platform makes their work possible.

• Writing and maintaining infrastructure as code — ensuring changes are version‑controlled, reviewed, and reproducible.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines that give developers fast feedback loops and safe, reliable deployments. Feature flags, rollback strategies, and staged rollouts are part of how we ship.
• Instrumenting systems with meaningful logs, metrics, and traces. You’ll build dashboards and alerts, and treat observability as part of the definition of done for every new system.
• Applying reliability engineering practices ‑ SLIs, SLOs, error budgets ‑ and contributing to incident response, post‑mortems, and the follow‑up actions that prevent the same failure twice.
• Working directly with engineers across the group to understand their workflows, identify friction, and improve the developer experience. The platform team exists to enable other teams, not to gatekeep them.

You take ownership of your work, communicate clearly, and approach disagreement with curiosity rather than defensiveness. You care about doing things properly ‑ not because someone told you to, but because you’ve seen what happens when corners are cut.

Experience:

• Experience with infrastructure as code using OpenTofu, Terraform, or similar tools.
• Experience using Ansible or similar for configuration management and automation.
• Familiarity with containerisation and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands‑on experience with GitOps, such as Flux or ArgoCD.
• Strong knowledge in observability, including setting up monitoring and troubleshooting production issues using logs, metrics, and traces.
• Strong experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Exposure to both on‑premise and cloud platforms is beneficial.
• Comfortable with scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell to support automation and tooling.

This is Formula 1. The software our teams build directly influences how the car performs on track. Platform Engineering makes that software possible ‑ your work has a direct line to the grid. You’ll join a group that values technical excellence over speed for its own sake, long‑term thinking over quick fixes, and genuine collaboration over silos. We believe maintainable is always cheaper than quick, and we’ve tested that belief enough times to know it’s true.

We offer a competitive remuneration package, private medical healthcare, a company pension scheme, a car scheme, and flexible working opportunities including hybrid arrangements. You’ll have access to excellent on‑site facilities at our Enstone headquarters, including a free gym and subsidised restaurant, as well as additional benefits such as a holiday buy‑back scheme. Applicants must have permanent right to work in the UK.