Platform Development Engineer
Jonathan Lee Recruitment · Manchester, North West
Platform Development Engineer at Jonathan Lee Recruitment, based in Manchester, North West. This is a contract role.
- Salary
- Competitive
- Location
- Manchester, North West
- Contract
- Contract
- Posted
- 1 day ago
- Closes
- 18 Sep 2026
- Sector
- Business Development
Reference https://www.jonlee.co.uk/job/71728-platform-development-engineer-manchester-grea
About the role
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Platform Development Engineer – 37208529 – £33.99/hr – Umbrella Rate
Division: Software Architecture
Contract Position based at: Digital Product Platform, Manchester
Role Overview
Platform Development Engineer role within a leading global automotive engineering organisation’s digital product and connected vehicle software division, working on next-generation software-defined vehicle platforms and premium in-car digital experiences.
Position Description
Currently seeking to recruit a Platform Development Engineer for our high-tech Software Development centre in the heart of Manchester. Working alongside our Pioneering Hub to integrate connected technologies in our next generation vehicles to create premium, in car experiences.
The Centre is home to Software, IT and Engineering teams and is focused on developing mobile apps and our data analytics capabilities in a culture that is open and innovative.
Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience
- Proven experience (ideally 4+ years) in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)
- Proven experience (ideally 4+ years) of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience
- Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles
- Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s)
- Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)
- Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques
- Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle
- Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Collaborative skills – being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams
- Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible
- Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools
- Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)
Desirable:
- Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language
- Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues
- Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications
- Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)
- Additional Information
THIS POSITION IS CONFIRMED INSIDE IR35
Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.
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Reference: https://www.jonlee.co.uk/job/71728-platform-development-engineer-manchester-grea · Posted 1 day ago · Closes 18 Sep 2026 · Listed via Jonathan Lee Recruitment
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