Platform Engineer

About Us:

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own the Azure foundation that powers a new generation of AI-enabled delivery capabilities for a major UK energy sector organisation. The organisation is modernising a heavily manual, paper-driven intake process into an intelligent, AI-assisted system — for both external customers and internal teams — and this role owns the platform that makes that possible.

You won't be building the AI/agentic applications yourself; that's owned by dedicated delivery teams. Instead, you'll design and run the shared Azure platform those teams build on — identity, networking, CI/CD, environments, and observability — so they can ship quickly, safely, and consistently. It's a high-trust, high-visibility role: multiple teams will depend on the platform you build every day.

What You'll Do

• Design and build shared Azure platform services used across multiple delivery teams.

• Own Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Bicep) to deliver clean, repeatable, well-governed environments.

• Build CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps) and define “golden paths” that let delivery teams

move fast without reinventing their own tooling.

• Establish identity, networking, and security baselines appropriate for a critical infrastructure organisation.

• Own observability — logs, metrics, and traces — and the operational tooling behind it.

• Act as the platform partner to multiple engineering teams, understanding their needs and making sound trade-offs on their behalf.

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience in platform, DevOps, or cloud engineering, with deep, hands-on Azure expertise —particularly identity, networking, and governance.

• Strong command of Infrastructure-as-Code — Terraform and/or Bicep — used in real, production environments.

• Solid CI/CD ownership — GitHub Actions and/or Azure DevOps.

• Production experience with Kubernetes (AKS) and/or Azure container services.

• Experience with observability tooling — Azure Monitor, Application Insights, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent.

• Comfortable supporting multiple engineering teams in parallel and balancing competing priorities.

Nice to Have

• Experience building platforms that support AI/ML/LLM workloads on Azure.

• Prior experience with UK energy or utilities sector clients.

• Experience building internal developer platforms or “golden path” tooling.

• Background in consulting or client-embedded delivery.

Tech Stack

Azure ·

Terraform / Bicep

GitHub Actions / Azure DevOps

Kubernetes (AKS)

Azure Monitor / Application

Working at ClearRoute
We have grown from six founders to 180+ people across five countries in three years, and what sets us apart isn't the pace, it's how we grow.

• Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).

• When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.

• A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.

• Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute.

At ClearRoute, we believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes, and inclusion creates the conditions for everyone to thrive. We are proud to have built a family friendly working environment and have many employees who have caring responsibilities alongside work. We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis.

We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process. We are happy to cater to your needs to make the interview accessible, if this is something you require please let us know by emailing us at join@clearroute.io