Radar Healthcare
Leeds, Yorkshire
07/06/2026
Full time
Radar Healthcare's new Platform Engineer The Platform Engineer will be an active, hands on contributor during a period of business restructure, supporting the implementation and modernisation of the company's cloud infrastructure and platform services. The role focuses on improving reliability, performance, scalability, security and developer experience, enabling engineering teams to deliver software quickly and safely. You will work closely with platform and engineering teams to implement agreed designs, owning platform components across build, operation and continuous improvement, and using automation and modern practices to reduce toil and accelerate delivery. We are primarily Azure based, with a small footprint in AWS. What you'll be doing to make a difference: Build and run internal platform infrastructure Build, operate and maintain resilient, scalable platform foundations across environments, working from agreed designs and standards. Operate cloud infrastructure and automation Support and run services on Azure and AWS, applying least privilege access, audited controls and automation as standard. Improve developer experience Implement deployment workflows, self service capabilities, golden paths and reusable templates that help teams ship safely and efficiently. Infrastructure as Code Implement and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, with modular, DRY patterns, appropriate testing and CI/CD integration. Platform reliability, scalability and security Apply SRE principles in day to day work, supporting capacity planning, reliability improvements and secure by default patterns. Observability and incident response Implement logging, metrics and tracing. Create dashboards and alerts. Participate in on call rotations and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement. Cross team collaboration Work closely with development, security and operations teams to deliver platform capabilities, execute agreed priorities and manage operational risk effectively. Your journey so far Hands on experience operating and supporting workloads on Azure or AWS, including troubleshooting and production support. Solid understanding of microservices based and distributed systems, and how they are deployed using containerised, serverless and VM based models. Experience implementing and operating Terraform in multi zone production environments, using modular, DRY designs, secure state backends, and working with both greenfield and existing (brownfield) infrastructure. Good understanding of container lifecycles, image creation, networking and secure deployment automation. Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) covering build, test, security scanning, Terraform deployments, and secure artifact and secret management. Comfortable scripting in PowerShell and/or Bash. Experience with observability stacks such as Azure Monitor, ELK, Prometheus or Grafana. Includes alerting best practices and troubleshooting using logs, metrics and traces. Tech Stack- Containerisation, microservices, Terrarform, Azure, AWS, GitHub actions. Even better if you Familiarity with Kubernetes is a plus. Experience with a general purpose language such as Python is beneficial. Familiarity with SLOs, SLIs and SLAs is desirable. Experience with GitOps workflows and tools such as Argo CD or Flux, including environment promotion and drift management. Benefits A competitive salary up to £60,000 per year, dependent on experience. Values led culture. Flexible working - core hours with one day per month in office. 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, with buy up option. Birthdays off and surprise. Charity leave - one day per year on company time. Mental healthcare - counselling support and Employee Assistance Program. Health coverage via Medicash - reimbursement for health appointments. Life cover - pay out of 3 salary for beneficiaries. Compassionate leave up to 5 days if you lose a loved one. Paid sick leave with enhanced pay after 6 months. Enhanced family leave - maternity and adoption pay, paternity leave options. Corporate pension - 3% of salary contribution. Technology - laptop provided, WFH risk assessment, accessories. Dog friendly office. Socials - company events and team gatherings. Discounts on cinema, vouchers, gym memberships, days out. Monthly allowance on flexible benefits platform for optional coverage. Accessibility If you require any special considerations or adjustments to our application and interviewing process, please let us know. Let us know how we can best support you.