Platform Engineer
Expert Thinking is a specialist UK cloud consultancy. Our ambition is to be the best, not the biggest. Built by engineers, for engineers, we help enterprise organisations solve complex technology challenges across Cloud Platforms, Cloud Data & AI, Cloud Migration, and DevSecOps & Cloud Automation.
We are looking for two exceptional Senior Consultants to join our Cloud & Platform Engineering practice.
Role At A Glance
- Salary: £65,000 to £95,000 plus benefits
- Location: remote-first (UK), with occasional client site travel
- Reports to: Head of Delivery
- Utilisation: 90% billable
The Role
This is a hands-on engineering and consulting role. You will design, build and modernise enterprise cloud platforms as part of a Strike Team, working with architects, engineers and customer stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable and highly automated solutions.
Your core expertise will be cloud and platform engineering, but you will be comfortable contributing when projects extend into data platform and AI-enabling infrastructure. This is not a data engineering role.
What You Will Do
- Build cloud foundations on AWS and/or Azure: landing zones, networking, identity, governance and security.
- Write reusable infrastructure in Terraform / OpenTofu.
- Implement platform engineering capabilities, including internal developer platforms and self-service provisioning.
- Work with Kubernetes (EKS, AKS) and containerised workloads.
- Design CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows, and automate with Python, Bash or PowerShell.
- Embed DevSecOps, observability and cost management into everything you deliver.
- Contribute to workshops and challenge existing approaches constructively.
What We Are Looking For
- Experience in a technology consultancy, systems integrator or professional services firm delivering to external clients (essential).
- Significant hands-on enterprise cloud engineering experience on AWS and/or Azure.
- Strong Terraform or OpenTofu, CI/CD and Git-based engineering experience.
- Solid knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, security and resilient architecture.
- Kubernetes and containerisation experience.
- Clear communication and the confidence to own technical deliverables.
- Desirable: both AWS and Azure; Helm, Argo CD or Crossplane; data platform exposure (Fabric, Databricks, AWS data services); regulated environments; relevant certifications.
Why Expert Thinking
- Technically challenging work in an engineering-led culture.
- Real autonomy to influence technical decisions.
- Exposure to cloud, platform engineering, automation, data and AI.
- Remote-first, flexible working built on trust.
- Funded certifications and a clear progression path to Principal Consultant.
Apply
If you are an accomplished cloud and platform engineer with a consultancy background and a genuine passion for technology, we would love to hear from you.
