Platform Engineer (Mid-level)
Platform Engineer (Mid-level)
Team17
We are seeking a Platform Engineer (Mid-level) to join our Platform Engineering function. This hands-on technical role focuses on the platforms, infrastructure, automation, and tooling that support our development teams and business operations.
About Team17
Founded in 1990, Team17 is an award-winning leading international games label and developer headquartered in the UK.
Team17 has released over 90 games to date across multiple platforms including: the Worms franchise, The Escapists, the BAFTA award-winning Overcooked, Yooka-Laylee, Aven Colony, Sheltered, Beyond Eyes. Currently Team17 is working alongside a varied range of talented developers from around the globe on games such as the forthcoming Yoku’s Island Express, Genesis: Alpha One, Sword Legacy: Omen and many more.
About The Role
Platform Engineer candidate will help maintain, improve, and modernise our platform estate across cloud services, infrastructure, monitoring, automation, CI/CD, and operational tooling. The role will work closely with Platform Engineering, IT Operations, development teams, and studio stakeholders to improve reliability, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Support CI/CD platforms and development tooling.
- Develop and maintain scripts and automation using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar technologies.
- Assist with Infrastructure as Code and platform configuration management.
- Improve repeatability, documentation, and operational consistency across platform services.
- Support monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards across platform services.
- Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, cloud, and platform issues.
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and service improvement activities.
- Help to improve platform reliability, resilience, and operational performance.
- Maintain technical documentation and operational procedures.
- Support escalated platform-related issues and drive continuous improvement.
- Act as a technical contributor within the Platform Engineering team.
- Work closely with seniors on platform improvement initiatives.
- Work closely with development teams to understand requirements and improve platform services.
- Evangelise best practices around platform operations, automation, reliability, and cloud services.
- Contribute to platform roadmaps.
Requirements
- Experience supporting platform, infrastructure, DevOps, or cloud engineering environments.
- Good infrastructure experience across Windows and/or Linux environments.
- Experience working with cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
- Experience with virtualisation technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Proxmox.
- Experience supporting CI/CD platforms and automation tooling.
- Scripting and automation experience using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management concepts.
- Good troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience supporting business-critical systems and services.
- Ability to work effectively with development teams and technical stakeholders.
- Good documentation, project and communication skills.
Desirables
- Experience administering source control platforms such as Perforce, GitHub, GitLab
- Experience supporting TeamCity, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD platforms.
- Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, or container-based platforms.
- Experience with package management platforms such as Artifactory or Nexus. -Experience supporting software development, game development, or creative production environments. -Experience migrating services from on-premises infrastructure to cloud platforms.
- Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
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