What started as connecting people to short-haul beach holidays has evolved into something much bigger - premium beach destinations, long-haul adventures, and vibrant city breaks - and that’s just the beginning of our story.Powered by our deep-rooted entrepreneurial spirit, proprietary tech, curiosity and our incredible people, we’re accelerating - delivering best in class technology, the ultimate holiday app, and experiences that keep our customers coming back for more.Ready to build the future of travel with us?About the RoleAt On the Beach, millions of customers use our technology to discover, plan and book their holidays every year.Behind that experience is an engineering organisation that needs reliable infrastructure, great tooling and simple ways of building and running software. We’re continuing to invest in our engineering platform and are looking for Senior Platform Engineers to help us make that experience better.You’ll work across cloud infrastructure, developer tooling, automation and operational engineering to help our product teams build, deploy and operate software more effectively.Depending on your background, you may naturally lean more towards areas such as AWS and cloud infrastructure, developer experience, CI/CD, internal tooling, reliability or automation. We don’t expect every Platform Engineer to be an expert in everything.What matters most is that you understand modern platform engineering and enjoy solving problems that make engineering teams faster, cheaper, safer and more effective.AI is also changing how software is built, and we want our platform to evolve alongside it. You’ll have the opportunity to explore how AI-assisted tooling can remove friction, improve engineering workflows and support new ways of working. What you’ll be doing day to dayYou’ll work closely with engineers across Product Engineering, Digital Workplace and InfoSec to understand problems and turn them into simple, scalable platform solutions. Your work could include improving self-service tooling, building reusable infrastructure and deployment patterns, developing CI/CD capabilities, improving cloud reliability and scalability, reducing developer friction, and helping teams better understand the performance and cost of the systems they operate.You’ll also contribute to observability, security and FinOps, helping us balance reliability, performance, security and cloud cost.As part of supporting the reliability of our cloud platform, there may also be occasional on-call responsibilities to help monitor systems and respond to issues when required.As a Senior Engineer, you’ll be trusted to take ownership of complex problems, make pragmatic technical decisions and help shape how our platform evolves.You’ll be a great addition to our team if you have the following skills, knowledge and experienceWe’re looking for an experienced engineer with a strong background in platform, cloud, infrastructure or developer tooling.You’ll ideally have experience working with AWS and modern cloud-native environments, along with some combination of infrastructure as code, containers, CI/CD, observability, automation and developer tooling.We’re much more interested in your ability to understand complex systems, make sensible engineering trade-offs and build solutions that other engineers genuinely want to use.Great platform engineering should improve the experience of the engineers using it.You’ll care about areas such as:AWS and cloud-native engineeringInfrastructure as code and automationCI/CD and software deliveryDeveloper tooling and self-service platformsKubernetes and containerised environmentsObservability, reliability and incident managementSecurity and sensible engineering guardrailsCloud cost and FinOpsAI-assisted engineering and automationMentoring and sharing knowledge with other engineersWhy join the Platform team?Rather than supporting a single product area, the things you build can improve how teams across the organisation develop and operate software.You’ll also have the opportunity to help shape what modern platform engineering looks like for us as our cloud estate, internal tooling and use of AI continue to evolve.What to expect from our interview processWe’ll run a multiple stage interview process, one stage of which will be an in-person interview at our fabulous Aeroworks office in Manchester city centre.If you require any reasonable adjustments during the interview process please let the Talent Acquisition team know and they will be happy to assist.Ways of workingOur full time hours are 37.5 per week, but we don't have rigid working hours so you can find the working pattern that's right for you. We also have hybrid working so we all work from home and from our Aeroworks office in Manchester City Centre. As a team we are in the office 2 days per week (usually Tuesday & Wednesday).That's why we offer a competitive benefits package, known as our Beach Perks, to all On the Beach colleagues.25 days holiday plus your birthday offGenerous discount on holidays, plus you will receive 2 extra days annual leave on top of your holiday allowance to use whilst you're away on your On the Beach package holidayAccess to Learnerbly learning platform, plus workshops, courses and professional qualificationsEnhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption pay, plus other family friendly supportEmployee Assistance Programme and free access to counsellingSimplyhealth Optimise Health PlanCompany Sick Pay schemeRegular wellbeing eventsGym discountShare Incentive Plan (SIP)Death in Service coverOnsite subsidised coffee shopThe Sandbox (our very own bar)Food and drink discounts across a number of venues in Manchester City CentreRegular social eventsCycle to Work scheme
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Hybrid) in Manchester employer: On the Beach Group plc
On the Beach is an exceptional employer that champions innovation and collaboration in the travel industry. With a remote-first working model and a vibrant Manchester office, employees enjoy flexible working hours, a competitive benefits package including generous holiday allowances, and opportunities for professional growth through learning platforms and workshops. The company fosters a diverse and inclusive culture, ensuring that every voice is heard and valued, making it a rewarding place to build a meaningful career.
