Senior Platform/Dev Ops Engineer
Anaplan
Salary undisclosed
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Description
At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.
What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.
Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.
Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating our wins – big and small.
Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, values-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!
This role combines deep technical expertise with platform strategy, operational leadership, and engineering enablement. You will help define standards, modernize deployment practices, improve developer experience, and drive platform reliability across multi-cloud environments.
The ideal candidate has strong experience building enterprise-scale CI/CD platforms, Kubernetes ecosystems, Infrastructure as Code, observability solutions, and developer enablement capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, build, and evolve scalable platform engineering and DevOps solutions for enterprise engineering teams.
- Lead the design and implementation of modern CI/CD and GitOps workflows using Jenkins, Kargo, ArgoCD, GitHub, and related tooling.
- Drive platform standardization, automation, reliability, and self-service engineering capabilities.
- Design and manage scalable Infrastructure as Code frameworks using Terraform and Terraform Enterprise.
- Lead Kubernetes platform architecture, Helm-based deployments, and container orchestration best practices.
- Establish observability standards and operational excellence using Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and related tooling.
- Collaborate with engineering, security, cloud, and architecture teams to improve platform capabilities and developer workflows.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to platform engineering best practices, governance, and technical strategy.
- Lead incident response, reliability improvements, root cause analysis, and operational maturity initiatives.
- Improve platform security, scalability, resiliency, and deployment efficiency across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, tooling, and automation opportunities aligned with platform engineering goals.
- Extensive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, or related roles.
- Strong expertise in designing and operating enterprise-scale CI/CD and cloud-native platforms.
- Deep hands-on experience with:
- Jenkins
- Kargo / ArgoCD
- GitHub Enterprise
- Terraform / Terraform Enterprise
- Kubernetes & Helm
- Docker
- Strong experience with multi-cloud infrastructure:
- AWS, Azure, and/or GCP
- Strong understanding of observability ecosystems including:
- Grafana
- Loki
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry tooling
- Strong scripting/programming experience with Python, Kotlin, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience with build and dependency tooling such as Gradle, Poetry, and UV.
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, networking, distributed systems, and platform reliability engineering.
- Experience driving platform modernization and developer enablement initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management, collaboration, and technical leadership skills.
- Experience building internal developer platforms (IDP) at enterprise scale.
- Experience with platform governance, security, secrets management, and compliance integration.
- Exposure to event-driven platform architectures and scalable distributed systems.
- Experience mentoring teams and influencing engineering standards across organizations.
- Knowledge of modern platform engineering trends, GitOps practices, and cloud-native ecosystems.
- Jenkins, Kargo, ArgoCD
- GitHub Enterprise
- Terraform & Terraform Enterprise
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
- AWS, Azure, GCP
- Grafana, Loki, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry
- Python, Kotlin, Gradle
- UV, Poetry
- Linux & Networking
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB)
We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture strengthens our business. DEIB improves our workforce, enhances trust with our partners and customers, and drives business success. Build your career in a place where diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging aren’t just words on paper – this is what drives our innovation, it’s how we connect, and it contributes to what makes us a market leader. We believe in a hiring and working environment where all people are respected and valued, regardless of gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, citizenship, or any other aspect which makes people unique. We hire you for who you are, and we want you to bring your authentic self to work every day!
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, perform essential job functions, and receive equitable benefits and all privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Fraud Recruitment Disclaimer
It has come to our attention that fraudulent and fictitious job opportunities are being circulated on the Internet. Prospective candidates are being contacted by certain individuals, mainly through telephone calls, emails and correspondence, claiming they are representatives of Anaplan. The main purpose of these correspondences and announcements is to obtain privileged information from individuals.
Anaplan does not:
- Extend offers to candidates without an extensive interview process with a member of our recruitment team and a hiring manager via video or in person.
- Send job offers via email. All offers are first extended verbally by a member of our internal recruitment team whenever possible and then followed up via written communication.
All emails from Anaplan would come from an @anaplan.com email address. Should you have any doubts about the authenticity of an email, letter or telephone communication purportedly from, for, or on behalf of Anaplan, please send an email to people@anaplan.com before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.
Candidate data processed during our recruitment activities is handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice. This may include the use of artificial intelligence or automated tools to assist our team in evaluating qualifications.
Benefits
- stock options
About this role
Anaplan is seeking a Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer to lead the design and evolution of its enterprise developer platform and cloud-native delivery ecosystem. You'll architect scalable CI/CD and Kubernetes solutions, establish observability standards, and drive platform modernization across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This role sits at the intersection of technical depth and strategic leadership—you'll define standards, mentor engineers, and collaborate across security, cloud, and architecture teams to improve how developers work at scale.
The ideal candidate brings extensive hands-on experience building enterprise-scale platforms with Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and modern observability tools like Grafana and Prometheus. You'll need strong scripting skills, deep knowledge of Linux and distributed systems, and a track record of driving platform enablement initiatives. Experience with multi-cloud infrastructure, GitOps practices, and internal developer platforms at enterprise scale is highly valued, as is the ability to lead incident response, root cause analysis, and reliability improvements.
This is a full-time, in-office role based in Manchester. It suits engineers who thrive on solving complex infrastructure challenges while building capabilities that enable other teams, and who want to influence technical strategy across a large organization serving Fortune 50 customers.
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