IT Services and IT Consulting👥 5001 employees📍 London, London, GBEst. 2001
We’re Civica and we make software that helps deliver critical services for citizens all around the world. From local government to central [federal] government, to education, to health and care, over…
📋 Job Overview
Civica builds software that runs essential public services, supporting local government, the NHS, housing associations, and financial institutions. We're investing in how we build software to ensure we can continue serving the public sector for the next decade. This Senior Platform Engineer role will support our mission by working alongside product teams to improve engineering practices and adopt platform standards.
🏢 About Civica
Civica is a company with deep roots in the public sector, working on problems that matter. We're not a startup chasing the next hype cycle, but a company committed to making a real difference to people and communities through technology.
🎯 The Role
The Senior Platform Engineer will work directly with product engineering teams to understand their current delivery practices and identify practical improvement opportunities. You'll help teams adopt Platform Enablement standards and support improvements to development workflows, build pipelines, automated checks, release processes, and production readiness.
✅ Key Responsibilities
Work directly with product engineering teams to understand their current delivery practices and identify practical improvement opportunities.
Help teams adopt Platform Enablement standards.
Support improvements to development workflows, build pipelines, automated checks, release processes, and production readiness.
Provide hands-on engineering guidance to help teams remove blockers and make sustainable progress.
Translate central platform guidance into practical actions that fit each product team’s context.
Promote safe, reliable, and consistent software delivery practices across Civica.
Capture feedback from product teams and turn recurring friction points into clear signals for platform improvement.
📌 Required Qualifications
Experience with CI/CD and automated path-to-production practices
Knowledge of trunk-based development and modern branching strategies
Experience with automated testing, quality gates, and release confidence
Understanding of build, versioning, promotion, and deployment concepts
Experience with observability, monitoring, and operational readiness
Knowledge of secure software delivery and shift-left controls
Understanding of infrastructure, environment, and configuration management principles
Experience with developer experience and engineering enablement
Stakeholder engagement, coaching, and influencing without direct authority
🎁 Benefits
25 Days Annual Leave + bank holidays – plus the option to buy up to 10 extra days!
Up to 3 extra days off for volunteering (Days of Difference)
5% employer match to pension contributions
Up to 75% salary cover for long-term illness (Income Protection)
4x salary tax-free lump sum (Life Assurance)
£25,000 lump sum for Critical Illness (extendable to dependents)
Private Medical Insurance for fast access to private healthcare
Health Cash Plan to claim back physio, therapies & more
Dental Insurance for routine & emergency care
Join employee-led communities (Affinity Groups)
Refer a friend & get rewarded (Bounty Bonus)
🛂 Visa & Eligibility
Civica is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, age, or any other legally protected characteristic. Our recruitment process is designed to ensure fairness and transparency, so every candidate has an equal chance to contribute to our mission.
