At a Glance
- Tasks: Build and automate cloud platforms for faster software delivery across Azure and AWS.
- Company: Join NewDay, a diverse and inclusive tech company focused on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible work options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Collaborative environment with a focus on continuous improvement and career advancement.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by enhancing developer experiences and simplifying deployments.
- Qualifications: Experience with Azure/AWS, TypeScript/Node.js, and CI/CD practices required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
As a Platform Engineer at NewDay, you will build the tooling, automation, and cloud platforms that enable software delivery across Azure and AWS. You will focus on the developer experience, creating scalable platforms, simplifying deployments, and enabling hundreds of engineers to deliver software faster, safer, and more efficiently.
How You'll Contribute
- Build and evolve the internal developer platform, creating tools and services that enable engineering teams to develop, test, deploy, and operate applications with ease.
- Develop deployment tooling and automation using modern software engineering practices, simplifying and accelerating software delivery across Azure and AWS.
- Identify opportunities to remove friction, improve self‑service capabilities, and enable developers to move faster.
- Design and implement cloud‑native solutions using containers, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD pipelines to improve platform scalability, resilience, and security.
- Collaborate closely with Platform Engineering, SRE, and development teams to introduce new technologies, establish engineering standards, and continuously improve our platform capabilities.
Essential Skills
- Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Azure and/or AWS, including core cloud services such as compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, and PaaS offerings (e.g., Azure App Services, Azure Functions, AWS Lambda).
- Software engineering background with TypeScript/Node.js (or .NET/C#), building internal platforms, deployment tooling, and automation that improves the developer experience.
- Proven experience implementing Infrastructure as Code and automated CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy, or equivalent.
- Experience with containerisation and cloud‑native technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, with an understanding of scalable, resilient, and highly available platform architectures across Azure and/or AWS.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps and platform engineering practices, including Agile delivery, GitHub and Jira, networking, authentication and authorisation, digital certificates, cloud security, and supporting engineering teams through effective platform tooling.
Plus Skills
- Experience building and operating Kubernetes platforms in production environments.
- Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, ARM, or Bicep to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
- Experience creating and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub Actions, Octopus Deploy, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Application Insights, Log Analytics, or Grafana.
- Experience promoting DevOps best practices, contributing to open‑source tooling, or helping engineering teams adopt modern platform engineering approaches.
Equal Opportunity Employer
At NewDay, we value all types of diversity. We are an equal‑opportunity employer and believe that our differences create a vibrant, authentic working culture. We do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics or identities. We make sure that every job is crafted to be inclusive and that people with disabilities or caring responsibilities can take part in the application and interview process. Tell us if you need accommodations: We’ll put reasonable adjustments in place to support you. We work with Textio to make our job design and hiring inclusive.
