Platform Engineer waystone · Leeds · Platform & Infrastructure Pay not stated 2w ago

Mid-level Platform & Infrastructure role at waystone. Leeds · full-time.

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What you’ll do

• Build reusable Terraform infrastructure patterns, mainly for Azure, while supporting AWS and OCI environments
• Automate infrastructure delivery and configuration with the listed pipeline and management tools
• Help development teams get independent environments and smoother deployments while preserving security controls
• Keep Azure Kubernetes workloads and Windows and Linux infrastructure reliable through support, upgrades and patching
• Improve monitoring, incident response, recovery testing and compliance records across the platform

What you bring

• At least three years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps or a comparable role, or equivalent practical experience alongside a degree
• Strong Azure and AWS infrastructure design experience, with hands-on Terraform expertise
• Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, plus Windows cloud administration and Linux fundamentals
• PowerShell or similar scripting ability, with knowledge of cloud security, access management and network security

Who this fits

This mid-level role suits an engineer comfortable working across infrastructure, automation and operational support, including guidance for junior colleagues. You’ll attend the Leeds office once a month and join the required on-call rota. The team expects engineers to balance project work with operational commitments and work independently across competing priorities.

From the employer

About Us

Waystone is a leading provider of institutional governance, administration, risk and compliance services to the asset management industry. With over 25 years’ experience, we support many of the world’s largest asset managers, providing a comprehensive range of specialist services from a global network of offices.

The Platform Engineering team builds and operates Waystone’s engineering platform, spanning cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, on-call and our internal developer portal. We provide the secure, automated foundations that the firm’s regulated services run on. We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale this platform through standardised, automated and compliant patterns, accelerating delivery for our development delivery teams while raising operational resilience across the estate.

We are a cross-skilled team by design: rather than narrow specialisation, we want every engineer able to work across the platform, giving us broader coverage, resilience and shared ownership.

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of larger, moderately complex pieces of platform work, setting objectives and delivering against project goals with a direct impact on team results.
• Design, implement and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure patterns and reusable Terraform modules across Azure, AWS and OCI, with a primary focus on Azure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) libraries to ensure consistent, compliant and repeatable environments across all cloud providers.
• Build and support CI/CD and deployment automation using GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy and ArgoCD, and configuration management using Ansible and Octopus Deploy.
• Support and enable development delivery teams – provisioning autonomous environments and reducing deployment friction while maintaining guardrails and separation of duties.
• Provide operational support for containerised and micro-service workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), maintaining high availability and reliability.
• Manage core infrastructure lifecycle tasks – vulnerability remediation and patching, upgrades, scaling and decommissioning across the Windows and Linux estate.
• Drive the adoption of cloud governance policies, security standards and architectural best practice, and help maintain continuous compliance evidence against the firm’s obligations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, DORA).
• Contribute to observability and monitoring across the estate, and to incident response and on-call, including troubleshooting and root cause analysis that drives systemic improvement.
• Support disaster recovery testing to validate recovery plans and ensure rapid, reliable restoration of services.
• Identify and recommend improvements to systems, processes and infrastructure patterns to improve operational resilience, performance and cost efficiency.
• Explain and advocate technical approaches to development delivery teams and colleagues across IT, influencing platform practices and standards at an operational level.
• Provide guidance, code review and support to junior engineers, helping them develop across the platform.
• Document infrastructure blueprints, standards and standard operating procedures in Confluence and our internal Platform Portal to enable self-service.
• Participate in the on-call rota to support critical infrastructure services.
• University degree or equivalent practical experience, with a minimum of three years’ experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience designing and implementing infrastructure in Azure and AWS.
• Deep, hands‑on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
• Experience building and debugging CI/CD and deployment pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, Azure DevOps or similar).
• Strong Windows OS management in cloud environments; solid Linux fundamentals (deeper experience a plus).
• Proficient in a scripting language such as PowerShell, with experience automating operational workflows.
• Sound understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management (Entra ID / IAM) and network security.
• Understanding of application architectures and CI/CD workflows, and how infrastructure aligns with them.
• Experience working closely with development delivery teams in an agile environment, using tooling such as Jira and Confluence to manage and track work.
• Excellent analytical, problem‑solving and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to non‑technical stakeholders.
• AI‑literate, with the ability to adopt and apply AI‑assisted engineering tooling (e.g. GitHub Copilot, AI coding assistants and agents) to accelerate delivery, automation and documentation, and a willingness to keep pace with an evolving AI toolset.
• Able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams – balancing project delivery, BAU and support commitments – prioritising effectively and working independently across competing demands.
• Able to participate in the on‑call rota – on‑call is a requirement of this role.
• Experience operating in a regulated financial services or otherwise highly governed environment.
• Certification in Azure, AWS or DevOps practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Kubernetes (AKS), ArgoCD and containerised services.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and DR tooling.
• Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Knowledge of FinOps and cloud cost‑management best practice.
• Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into engineering workflows (e.g. IaC generation, automated remediation, or documentation).
• Exposure to compliance‑evidence or governance tooling and incident‑management tooling.

Additional Information

• This is a hybrid role, with attendance at our Leeds office once a month.
• Participation in the on‑call rota is a requirement of this role; standing on‑call allowances apply.
• Opportunities for professional growth, including certifications in Azure, AWS and DevOps practices, within a deliberately cross‑skilled team.
• You will join a global, collaborative team that values innovation, ownership and continuous learning, with a direct impact on the resilience of the firm’s platforms.

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