Platform Engineer

Job-ID: 1617Category: TechnologyLocation: United KingdomWorkplace: HybridSchedule: Full timePosted: 2026-11-04Closes: 2026-11-16Workplace: White City, London (Hybrid working)  The roleAs a DevOps / Platform Engineer in the Core Team you are part of our Group Technology Platforms business area working out of our London office. The Core Team supports software development at ITV by developing the patterns, processes and tooling that make up the Common Platform - our internal development platform.  We do this by taking the best of open source, cloud native and SaaS tooling, and packaging it in highly automated, easy to deploy template architectures and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) patterns.As the owner of the Common Platform tooling, the Core Team is responsible to the consumers of the Platform for bug & issue resolution and feature requests. You will also be working alongside our Embedded Platform Engineers, as part of the wider Common Platform team, to ensure that best practice, devops capabilities and tooling are shared across ITV’s software development teams. To do this, you will be expected to effectively communicate upcoming platform changes to downstream teams through presentations, training workshops and coaching sessions.  Main responsibilitiesImplementing IaC with Terraform and utilising functions of the Common PlatformWorking within Core Platform to prioritise work for upgrades and business delivery and supporting engineers with deployment and production issuesReviewing and approving pull requests from engineers across ITV to support deployment of new infrastructure, permission changes and accessMaintaining and supporting infrastructure for the Core Platform Team including the Common Platform Infrastructure e.g. Grafana, Self-Hosted Github Action Runners etcManaging upgrades of the Kubernetes deployments in AWSDefining and designing the infrastructure for the future - whether this be for a new application or re-design of an existing applicationSharing best practice within the Common Platform team and contributing back ideas, improvements and designsSkills you’ll need (minimum criteria)Knowledge and proven experience of secure cloud practices, and building highly performance and scalable cloud infrastructure (ideally AWS)Knowledge and proven experience of Infrastructure as Code technologies (ideally Terraform) and using and implementing version control strategies with these technologiesKnowledge and proven experience of containerisation and deploying container workloads, ideally on KubernetesKnowledge and proven experience with Continuous Delivery / Continuous Integration patterns and platforms e.g. Jenkins, GitHub actions etcKnowledge and proven experience with monitoring and alerting toolsKnowledge and proven experience responding to production incidents to diagnose and resolve issues related to the infrastructure supporting the servicesOther things we’re looking for (key criteria)Knowledge and proven experience in cloud cost optimisation and balancing this with resilient infrastructure needsKnowledge and proven experience with in depth knowledge of Linux (Centos, Amazon Linux 2)Knowledge and experience working within an Agile delivery methodologyStrong communication skills and the ability to provide constructive feedback, and receive constructive feedback for improvements (particularly an ability to show constructive design and code collaboration e.g. PR reviews)Passionate to work within a team structure and build relationships with multiple teams (Embedded team and Common Platform)Able to travel to London once a month to collaborate with the wider Common Platform team and your embedded team in LondonExperience and knowledge of Kubernetes and management tools such as helmExperience with mentoring / coaching or Line Management - the role has an expectation to Line Manage more junior team membersAbout the organizationITV is for everyone.

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Flexible working with a range of options to suit everyoneGenerous holiday allowance, plus you can buy moreAnnual bonus opportunityCompetitive pension contributionSave as you earn - with an opportunity to buy ITV sharesWellbeing and volunteering days plus a wide range of opportunities to help you live a balanced and healthy lifeMore about our benefitsAbout the companyYour work matters to millions.
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