Platform Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, resilient platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver reliably in a regulated Financial Services environment. You will collaborate with engineering, security and operations to provide self-service infrastructure, standardised tooling and automation across the software delivery lifecycle.

Location & Salary

• Location: United Kingdom (Britain / UK) (hybrid/remote options may be available)
• Salary: £110,000

Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud-native platform services (compute, networking, storage, identity) with strong reliability and security controls.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and reusable modules; manage environments across development, test and production.
• Operate Kubernetes-based platforms and associated tooling (ingress, service mesh, secrets, policy).
• Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, artefact management and release automation.
• Embed observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and incident response practices.
• Harden platforms to meet regulatory expectations (auditability, access control, change management, data protection).
• Partner with development teams to enable golden paths, templates and documentation.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience as a Platform/DevOps/SRE engineer within complex or regulated environments (Financial Services preferred).
• Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and core services (VPC/VNet, IAM, KMS, load balancing).
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (build, upgrade, secure and troubleshoot clusters).
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation/Bicep) and configuration management.
• Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls).
• Scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, Bash or similar) to automate workflows.
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and container registries.
• Security-first mindset: secrets management, vulnerability management, least privilege, supply chain controls.
• Observability tooling experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk) and on-call/incident management.
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence standards across teams.

Desirable

• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and SSO/identity integration.
• Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and controls (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS) and audit evidence collection.
• Experience running high-availability platforms and performing capacity planning and cost optimisation.