Platform Engineer in Leeds

Radar Healthcare is looking for a Platform Engineer to support the implementation and modernisation of the company's cloud infrastructure and platform services.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and maintain resilient, scalable platform foundations across environments, working from agreed designs and standards.
• Support and run services on Azure and AWS, applying least‑privilege access, audited controls and automation as standard.
• Implement deployment workflows, self‑service capabilities, golden paths and reusable templates that help teams ship safely and efficiently.
• Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with modular, DRY patterns, appropriate testing and CI/CD integration.
• Apply SRE principles in day‑to‑day work, supporting capacity planning, reliability improvements and secure‑by‑default patterns.
• Implement logging, metrics and tracing. Create dashboards and alerts.
• Participate in on‑call rotations and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with development, security and operations teams to deliver platform capabilities, execute agreed priorities and manage operational risk effectively.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on experience operating and supporting workloads on Azure or AWS, including troubleshooting and production support.
• Solid understanding of microservices‑based and distributed systems, and how they are deployed using containerised, serverless and VM‑based models.
• Experience implementing and operating Terraform in multi‑zone production environments, using modular, DRY designs, secure state backends, and working with both greenfield and existing (brownfield) infrastructure.
• Good understanding of container lifecycles, image creation, networking and secure deployment automation.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) covering build, test, security scanning, Terraform deployments, and secure artifact and secret management.
• Comfortable scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash.
• Experience with observability stacks such as Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus or Grafana, with alerting best practices and troubleshooting using logs, metrics and traces.

Even Better If You Have

• Familiarity with Kubernetes.
• Experience with a general‑purpose language such as Python.
• Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs and SLAs.
• Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux, including environment promotion and drift management.

Technical Stack

• Containerisation, microservices, Terraform, Azure, AWS, GitHub Actions.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary up to £60,000 per year, dependent on experience.
• Values‑led culture.
• Flexible working with a base expectation of one day per month in the office.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with the option to buy up to a week.
• Birthdays off with a special celebration.
• Charity leave on company time.
• Mental healthcare including counselling, an app, and an Employee Assistance Program.
• Healthcare cover with Medicash.
• Life cover with a pay‑out of three times your salary.
• Compassionate leave up to five days.
• Paid sick leave with enhanced pay after six months.
• Enhanced family leave: primary caregivers 16 weeks full pay and 10 weeks half pay; secondary caregivers 2 weeks full pay, with the second week after one year of service.
• Pension contribution of 3% of salary.
• Equipment and technology support, including laptop and workspace setup.
• Dog‑friendly office.
• Regular socials and team events.
• Discounts on cinema, vouchers, gym memberships and more, plus a monthly allowance on the flexible benefits platform.

Accessibility

If you require any special considerations or adjustments to our application and interviewing process, please let us know. We are committed to an inclusive and accessible process.