Overview

Platform Engineer role at CTI Digital. Location: Manchester. Application deadline: 22 September 2025. Department: Hosting. This is a hands-on role with a strong Azure focus, drawing on broader platform and infrastructure experience.

What you’ll be doing

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll take ownership of the infrastructure that powers our client-facing platforms and internal systems, with a focus on Azure, automation, and reliability. You’ll work across cloud environments, hosting tools, and monitoring systems to ensure uptime, scalability, and performance.

• Maintain and optimize cloud infrastructure in Azure (and some AWS).
• Automate provisioning, deployment, and patching using Terraform, PowerShell, or scripting.
• Manage web hosting environments, including Linux servers and Plesk.
• Support platform security, backup processes, and access control.
• Respond to incidents, service alerts, and client escalations, including 24/7 rota participation.
• Monitor system performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Create and maintain platform documentation and runbooks.
• Collaborate with support, delivery, and engineering teams to improve platform stability and speed.

Experience and skills

To thrive as a Platform Engineer, you’ll need a combination of hands-on technical expertise and a proactive mindset. You’re someone who loves to get stuck in and enjoys solving problems, documenting solutions, and improving systems.

• Experience in a technical infrastructure, platform, or hosting support role.
• Hands-on experience with Azure; some exposure to AWS is desirable.
• Good knowledge of Linux, Plesk, and common hosting stack elements like DNS, SSL, and web/email services.
• Comfort working with infrastructure-as-code, scripting, and deployment automation.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to engage with both technical and non-technical users.
• Experience with tools like Cloudflare, Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence), and monitoring systems.
• Bonus: knowledge of networking principles, Microsoft 365, or backup/DR solutions.

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What’s in it for you?

Benefits include: 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), hybrid working (office twice a week), workplace nursery scheme, health cash plan, cycle-to-work scheme, flexible working hours, employee well-being and mental health programme, relaxed working environments (office dogs welcome), and company socials.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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