Are you a highly skilled and proactive Senior Platforms Engineer ready to seize an exciting new opportunity? Join our dynamic Platform Engineering & Technology team and help us shape the future of platform engineering at Wickes! This is your chance to take the next step in your career and make a real impact.
Wickes is a digitally-led, service-enabled home improvement retailer, focused on helping the nation feel house-proud. We are 'big on people' and committed to a culture where everyone feels proud to be part of the Wickes family. Join our agile, cross-functional teams in a supportive, collaborative environment as we become a 'seriously digital' business, leveraging modern, event-driven architectures (MACH) to deliver best-in-class customer and colleague experiences.
The Role:
As a Senior Platforms Engineer, you're not just a player; you're the architect of our future! Dive into designing, building, and maintaining the core infrastructure that fuels our internal platforms, empowering software development teams to deliver applications with unparalleled efficiency, security, and reliability. In our Agile and Kanban-driven environment, you'll champion our "platform as a product" philosophy, crafting robust, scalable, and automated solutions. Step up as a senior team member, providing technical leadership, mentoring engineers, and driving the adoption of cutting-edge best practices in infrastructure management and automation. This is your chance to innovate, lead, and leave your mark!
Key Responsibilities:
- Infrastructure Automation
- Design, implement, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure cloud infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation). Lead the development of reusable Terraform modules and Packer images.
- Deep expertise in core AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, KMS, etc.
- CI/CD Pipeline Development & Management
- Implement strategies for continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment, including blue/green deployments, canary releases, and rollbacks.
- DevOps & Automation
- Champion a DevOps culture within Wickes, promoting collaboration, shared responsibility, and continuous improvement.
- Collaboration & Mentorship
- Collaborate closely with development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements and deliver effective solutions.
Does this sound like you?
- Proven experience in a Senior Platforms Engineer role, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering or Platform Engineering role.
- Expertise and hands-on experience designing, deploying, and managing complex infrastructure on AWS.
- Proven experience building and maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines from scratch and optimizing existing ones.
- Solid understanding of containerization technologies (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS/ECS).
- Strong understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, Load Balancing) and security best practices in the cloud.
- Excellent written, verbal, communication and presentation skills with the ability to articulate new ideas and concepts to technical and nontechnical audiences.
What's in it for you?
Our strong family values and 'cornerstones' lie at the heart of the success of our journey. If matching your ambition to our culture is an exciting prospect, there's never been a better time to join us.
We’re a team. And teams work best together when they know and respect one another. Listen and learn from one another. So we offer a hybrid working model. Giving you the support you need to do well at work, and the flexibility to make life work for you.
We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that includes:
- Competitive package including an car allowance and annual bonus
- 25 Days holiday plus bank holidays
- Contributory Pension and Life Assurance
- Flexible Hybrid working (2-3 days in Watford)
- Save-as-you-earn scheme
- Colleague discount
- Discount platform including savings and cash back at numerous retailers, savings on gym membership, cycle to work scheme
Our widely recognised wellbeing strategy is something we’re proud of at Wickes. As part of this, we offer a range of health and wellbeing benefits and support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, financial education & loans, and access to parental, menopause, and fertility support.
About Us:
We are a multi-channel retailer operating in the home improvement market. With 40 years in industry, we now generate revenue in excess of £1.6Bn across 230 stores delivered by 8,000+ colleagues.
We care for our people – and we look out for one another. Everyone has a voice. We’re ambitious, but we’re inclusive, supportive and down-to-earth with it. Anyone can build on their talent and expect our support to get on.
Please contact us here if you require any adjustments within the application process. If you require any reasonable adjustments at the interview stage you will have an opportunity to inform us when we invite you to interview. Please note, this link is only for reasonable adjustments required - general enquiries, or direct CV applications cannot be accepted via this form. 
