Platform Engineer (Mid-level)

• We are seeking a Platform Engineer (Mid-level) to join our Platform Engineering function.
• This hands-on technical role focuses on the platforms, infrastructure, automation, and tooling that support our development teams and business operations.
• The successful candidate will help maintain, improve, and modernise our platform estate across cloud services, infrastructure, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, and operational tooling.
• The role will work closely with Platform Engineering, IT Operations, development teams, and studio stakeholders to improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Support, maintain, and improve platform services used across the business.
• Administer and support infrastructure across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Assist with the migration and modernisation of services from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms.
• Support backup, disaster recovery, and resilience activities for critical systems.
• Play an integral part in the improvement of platform services, tooling, and supporting infrastructure.
• Contribute to platform standardisation and operational improvements.
• Support CI/CD platforms and development tooling.
• Develop and maintain scripts and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
• Assist with Infrastructure as Code and platform configuration management.
• Improve repeatability, documentation, and operational consistency across platform services.
• Support monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards across platform services.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, cloud, and platform issues.
• Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and service improvement activities.
• Help to improve platform reliability, resilience, and operational performance.
• Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
• Support escalated platform-related issues and drive continuous improvement.
• Act as a technical contributor within the Platform Engineering team.
• Work closely with seniors on platform improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with development teams to understand requirements and improve platform services.
• Evangelise best practices around platform operations, automation, reliability, and cloud services.
• Contribute to platform roadmaps.

Requirements

• Experience supporting platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering environments.
• Good infrastructure experience across Windows and/or Linux environments.
• Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox.
• Experience supporting CI/CD platforms and automation tooling.
• Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management concepts.
• Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting business-critical systems and services.
• Ability to work effectively with development teams and technical stakeholders.
• Good documentation, project and communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience administering source control platforms such as Perforce, GitHub, GitLab
• Experience supporting TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or container-based platforms.
• Experience with package management platforms such as Artifactory or Nexus.
• Experience supporting software development, game development, or creative production environments.
• Experience migrating services from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms.
• Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.

Platform Engineer (Mid-level)

Team17 Digital · Wakefield, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-08