Developer Experience & Platform Engineering Solution Architect

Salary

£33,000 – 48,000 per year

Requirements

• Platform Engineering and Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)
• Developer Experience (DevEx) and DevOps transformation
• Kubernetes experience, including AKS, EKS or OpenShift
• CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or Harness
• Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform or equivalent
• Experience with Backstage or similar developer portal technologies
• Experience with observability, monitoring and developer feedback platforms
• Experience with secrets management and identity solutions such as HashiCorp Vault
• Experience with progressive delivery, release orchestration and modern deployment practices
• Ability to engage with senior stakeholders and lead technical teams
• Ability to translate business challenges into practical, scalable engineering solutions

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements focused on Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and enterprise software delivery transformation
• Design and architect Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs), CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native engineering platforms at scale
• Facilitate workshops with engineering leaders, product teams and platform stakeholders to define target architectures, operating models and delivery roadmaps
• Translate complex business and technical challenges into clear, implementable platform and DevEx solutions
• Provide end-to-end technical leadership across pre-sales and delivery engagements, from discovery through to implementation assurance
• Support sales teams with opportunity shaping, bid responses, solution design and commercial proposal development
• Define reusable patterns, reference architectures and engineering standards across our Cloud & Apps Practice
• Research and experiment with emerging tools, technologies and practices to evolve our Platform Engineering and DevEx offerings
• Lead and mentor consultants and architects, ensuring high-quality delivery across multiple customer engagements
• Ensure solution quality through design assurance, technical governance and risk identification across multi-technology environments

Technologies

• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GitHub
• GitLab
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• OpenShift
• Terraform

More

We are Computacenter, and our Cloud & Apps Practice is growing as we help some of the UKs largest public and private sector organisations modernise software delivery. In this senior role, we work at the intersection of technology strategy, architecture and delivery to improve developer productivity, accelerate delivery and enhance operational resilience through Platform Engineering, Internal Developer Platforms, DevOps and Developer Experience best practices. We offer the opportunity to shape modern engineering platforms, influence customer transformation programmes and contribute to reusable standards across our practice.

last updated 26 week of 2026

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