Senior Platform Engineer at and-digital

Setup: Remote, Hybrid
Location: London, England
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified
Posted: Aug 27, 2026

Description

AND Digital is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the technical development and evolution of their cloud platform. This role involves defining and implementing strategies for scalable, secure, and resilient platform capabilities, designing self-service tooling, and driving automation across various aspects of infrastructure and operations. The engineer will influence technical strategy, mentor junior staff, and contribute to improving overall platform reliability and developer experience.

Required Skills

Cloud Platform
Technical Strategy
Architecture
Roadmap
Platform Capabilities
Self-service Solutions
Developer Experience
Automation
Standards
Engineering Patterns
Best Practices

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Significant experience in Platform Engineering.
Designing and operating internal developer platforms at scale.
Building reusable platform services, tooling, and self-service capabilities.
Applying platform-as-a-product principles to improve developer experience.
Establishing standards and paved-road approaches that enable engineering teams to work independently.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, networking, identity, and security.
Experience making architectural trade-offs across reliability, scalability, performance, cost, and developer experience.
Infrastructure as Code and automated cloud provisioning.
CI/CD and automated software delivery.
Automation of operational processes and platform lifecycle management.
Experience establishing repeatable, standardised engineering workflows.
Designing platforms for resilience, fault tolerance, observability, and operational excellence.
Applying SRE principles and practices to improve availability and reduce operational risk.
Performance analysis, capacity planning, scalability engineering, and proactive reliability improvement.
Establishing meaningful service-level objectives, monitoring, alerting, and operational practices.
Providing technical leadership across multiple engineering teams or a wider engineering organisation.
Influencing architecture and technical direction without relying solely on organisational authority.
Leading complex technical initiatives and driving decisions through ambiguity.
Mentoring senior and developing engineers and creating a culture of knowledge sharing and technical excellence.