Summary: The role of Infrastructure Platform Engineer is a 3-month contract based in Manchester, offering a hybrid working arrangement. The position requires a skilled professional to design, implement, and manage infrastructure solutions while ensuring optimal performance and security. The engineer will also automate infrastructure management and support system administration tasks. This role is classified as inside IR35, indicating specific tax implications for contractors.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and manage the infrastructure for scalable and secure platform solutions.
• Oversee the deployment, configuration, and maintenance of cloud and on-premise environments.
• Ensure optimal performance, availability, and security of the platform infrastructure.
• Administer and support systems such as servers, storage, networking, and databases.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and management through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Support monitoring and troubleshooting of infrastructure-related issues, ensuring minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with teams to assess infrastructure requirements, providing tailored solutions to meet business needs.
• Regularly update and patch systems to maintain compliance with security and performance standards.

Key Skills:

• Extensive experience as an Infrastructure Engineer or in a similar role focusing on platform engineering and infrastructure management.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and hybrid cloud architectures.
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Experience with provisioning, managing, and scaling virtualised environments, servers, and storage.
• Familiarity with networking protocols, firewalls, and load balancing.
• Solid understanding of system monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Nagios).
• Experience with containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration.
• Proficiency with Linux-based systems and shell scripting (Bash, Python).
• Ability to manage infrastructure security, patching, and access controls.

Salary (Rate): 500

City: Manchester

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: inside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT