Platform Engineer

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. 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. 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 parksWe'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 are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we'll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team 'To apply, you'll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter - tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you'll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .Become a part of Anglian Water's future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.