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Working across cloud infrastructures, CI/CD pipelines, and application hosting environments, you’ll develop and improve scalable, reliable solutions that support business-critical systems across the organisation.\nAs a Senior Platform Engineer at Global, you will:\nKey Responsibilities\nPlatform Engineering & Automation: Support, maintain, and enhance our application hosting and build platforms across AWS, Kubernetes, Jenkins, and GitHub. Develop automation and tooling using technologies such as Python, Java/Groovy, Go, and Terraform.\n\nTechnical Leadership & Best Practice: Lead code reviews and champion engineering best practices across security, performance, maintainability, and testing. Contribute to technical standards and continuous improvement initiatives within the team.\n\nOperational Excellence & Collaboration: Maintain reliable production environments, improve observability and monitoring systems, and respond to proactive and reactive support alerts. Work collaboratively across the Technology department while mentoring and supporting other engineers.\n\nWhat You’ll Love About This Role\nThink Big: Work across a broad range of business-critical systems and technologies that have real impact across Global.\n\nOwn It: Take responsibility for improving platform reliability, automation, and deployment processes in a modern engineering environment.\n\nKeep it Simple: Solve complex technical challenges using industry-standard tooling and scalable engineering practices.\n\nBetter Together: Be part of a collaborative team culture that values code reviews, pair programming, continuous integration, learning, and knowledge sharing.\n\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn your first few months, you’ll have:\nBuilt a strong understanding of our existing build and deployment architecture\n\nContributed improvements to technical solutions and ways of working\n\nDelivered new features, fixes, and platform enhancements\n\nDemonstrated a collaborative approach to problem-solving and delivery\n\nShared knowledge with the team while continuing to develop new skills\n\nWhat You’ll Need\nPlatform & Cloud Engineering Experience: Strong experience solving complex engineering problems across distributed systems, with exposure to AWS and Kubernetes environments\n\nSoftware Development & Automation Skills: Experience working across the full software development lifecycle with strong coding and automation capabilities\n\nSystems Thinking: Understanding of system architecture and the ability to think end-to-end across platforms and services\n\nQuality Engineering Mindset: Experience writing well-tested, maintainable, secure, and performant code, including infrastructure testing (e.g. Terraform Testing, BDD-style integration tests)\n\nStakeholder Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in multi-tenant environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities","description_format":"text","description_chars":3041,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Food & Beverages","Media & Entertainment","Broadcasting"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-27T17:51:46Z"}],"liveness":{"score":22,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.626,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":28,"expected_fill_days":13,"reasons":["conf:18","velocity","win:tail"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/global-senior-platform-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/global-senior-platform-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T10:22:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1491,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":3509,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}