Platform Engineer

Job Description

From £41,400 per annum (depending on skills & experience)

Full time / 37 hrs a week / Permanent

Huntingdon - Hybrid

Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team!

We’re building a modern engineering culture where automation, reliability, and developer experience are central to how we deliver technology. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative team including Cloud, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineers, all focused on enabling secure, efficient, and resilient digital services.

You’ll play a pivotal role in designing, building, and evolving internal platforms that empower our System, Product, and Delivery teams to develop, deploy, and operate digital and data services with speed, safety, and consistency. With a strong product mindset, you’ll simplify complexity, abstract infrastructure, and create self-service capabilities that make it easy for engineers to do the right thing by default.

What will you be doing as a Platform Engineer?

• Create and maintain the core platform for engineering teams to build and run their services.

• Partner with Cloud and SRE teams to improve service stability and cost efficiency.

• Implement and enforce cloud governance policies for security, cost, and compliance.

• Develop a self-service catalogue of standardised infrastructure patterns and services.

• Integrate observability tooling for logging, metrics, and tracing.

• Establish frameworks and automation for fast, safe, and repeatable application deployments.

• Lead the development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps.

• Trial new tools and technologies to improve ways of working and contribute to the strategic roadmap.

What does it take to be a Platform Engineer?

• Significant hands-on experience with a major cloud provider (preferably Microsoft Azure).

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Bicep or Terraform).

• Experience with CI/CD and automation (Azure DevOps pipelines).

• Strong scripting skills (e.g., Python, PowerShell).

• Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architectures.

• Strong collaboration and communication skills.

• Platform-as-a-Product mindset with curiosity and adaptability.

• Ability to analyse complex systems and identify performance bottlenecks.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Double Matched Pension Scheme – matches your contributions up to 6% (up to 18% combined)

• Car Allowance

• 26 Days Annual Leave

• Personal private health care

• Annual bonus scheme

• Opportunity to volunteer and do unpaid work in the community

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

• Free parking at all offices, sites, and leisure parks

We’re a purpose-led organisation committed to sustainability, innovation, and delivering long-term value for our customers and communities. As a Platform Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in enabling secure, efficient, and resilient digital services that power our future.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Join us and make a difference. We’re committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our customers and communities. We’re proud to support the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter, Armed Forces Covenant (Gold), Disability Confident scheme, and the Women’s Utility Network.

Closing date: 10/12/25

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