Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

Apply for the Platform Engineer role at RNIB.

Base pay range

Salary: £55,000 per year

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Home with occasional travel to office locations

Are you ready to take the lead in building secure, scalable, and cost-effective platforms?

We are recruiting for 2 Platform Engineers. The roles are responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining on‑premises and cloud infrastructure, primarily in Microsoft Azure. This includes leading environment management to ensure consistency, security, capacity, and scalability across all environments. The role promotes and implements best practices platform security, automation, monitoring, and cost optimisation. Daily work involves collaborating with software engineers, architects, and security teams to ensure platform reliability and compliance, as well as monitoring and managing resources for optimal performance and cost‑efficiency. The engineer troubleshoots infrastructure issues, supports incident response, and contributes to internal standards, documentation, and reusable templates. Staying current with emerging technologies and mentoring junior engineers are also key aspects of the role.

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you should have Microsoft Azure certifications (such as AZ-104, AZ-305 or AZ-500) or equivalent hands‑on experience. Essential skills include strong practical knowledge of Azure services, experience with automation and proficiency in scripting languages like PowerShell or Python. You’ll need a solid understanding of cloud security, identity management, and networking, as well as familiarity with monitoring and logging tools. Success in this role also requires excellent problem‑solving abilities, attention to detail, and strong communication and documentation skills, along with the ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team. For more details of the requirements of the role, please see the attached job description.

What we offer

RNIB prides itself on being a great place to work with a positive, progressive culture. We offer a wide range of benefits including 26 days of holiday per year (plus bank holidays) which rises with service, enhanced family‑friendly benefits, a contributory pension scheme with an employer contribution of up to 11% and a rewards platform with employee discounts across over 800 retailers.

For more information on our available benefits, please visit our Benefits of Working at RNIB page.

How to apply

If you’d like to apply for this opportunity, please apply online, uploading your CV and supporting statement, telling us how you meet the essential criteria in the person specification.

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Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Information Technology

Industry

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