Pets at Home

Senior Platform Engineer (Azure)

Pets at Home  •  Hybrid  •  13 days ago
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Job Description

At Pets at Home, we’re building the UK’s leading pet care ecosystem, connecting 440+ stores, vets, grooming salons and digital platforms into one seamless experience. Our tech enables everything from personalised subscriptions to vet bookings, all powered by a modern Azure-based platform.

About The Role

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve our Azure infrastructure, driving best-in-class cloud engineering across our omnichannel platform. You’ll lead with Terraform, shape CI/CD standards and enable secure, scalable delivery that makes a real difference to pet parents nationwide.

The role offers hybrid working from our Support Office in Handforth, Cheshire.

Key responsibilities will include:

  • Designing, maintaining and evolving Azure infrastructure using Terraform (IaC)
  • Owning and optimising CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)
  • Implementing secure, resilient architecture (private networking, zero-trust, HA/DR)
  • Collaborating with Engineering, Data and Architecture teams on scalable solutions
  • Enhancing observability and governance (Azure Monitor, automation)
  • Creating reusable modules and uplifting engineering standards across teams

What You’ll Bring

Essential

  • Strong Terraform expertise in production Azure environments
  • Deep Azure knowledge (networking, identity, data services)
  • Proven experience owning CI/CD and driving cloud best practices
  • Track record of improving security, resilience and scalability in complex environments
  • Collaborative mindset within agile, cross-functional teams

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Event Hubs, Fabric or real-time data platforms
  • Exposure to multi-cloud environments (e.g., GCP)
  • Familiarity with observability tooling (Log Analytics, Grafana)

Why Join Us?

You’ll help shape a modern cloud platform that powers millions of pet care journeys, working with passionate teams who care deeply about doing things the right way. Bring your curiosity, pragmatism and love of pets and help us build technology that makes life better for pets and their people.

Apply today and help us create a better world for pets!

Pets just see people. They aren’t biased and they don’t discriminate. We take our inspiration from pets, and we value and respect difference in all its forms. Our aim is to reflect the diversity of the communities we operate in, and every colleague can help us achieve this. We encourage our people to be themselves so even if your skills and experience don’t perfectly align, if you think you can make a unique contribution through your values and behaviours, we want to hear from you!

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Pets at Home

About Pets at Home

Since 1991, when we were a wholesaler with a team of just 15, we’ve been focused on getting better every day. By putting pets before profit, working as a team and taking pride in everything we do, we’ve grown into a 451 store network with more than 8,913 colleagues working in our Stores, Grooming Salons, Distribution Centres and Support Office.

We are the UK’s leading pet specialist, providing pet owners with all their product needs, as well as our Vets for Pets practices and Grooming salons. We support our colleagues to work with pride and passion, to bring honesty and integrity to work every day, and to do it all with a sense of fun and fearlessness. We never shy away from having the important conversations and doing what we say we’ll do.

Our values and behaviours are practiced daily across the business and are what really makes us an enjoyable, exciting place to work. We're always striving to develop and reward our colleagues with an extensive in-house series of training programmes, wellbeing initiatives and a comprehensive benefits package. In 2018 we were delighted to be voted top 5 in the Great Place to Work UK’s Large category.

Our colleagues are central to the success of the business and are fully trained in pet care and dedicated to animal welfare. Pets are central to everything that we do and 93% of colleagues have their own pets too!

If you like the sound of life at Pets at Home, you can find out more on our dedicated careers site: https://www.petsathomejobs.com/

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Handforth, GB
Year Founded
1991
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