Platform Engineer

Overview

In this role you design, build and operate secure, resilient platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver reliably within a regulated Financial Services environment. You’ll partner with engineering, security and operations to provide self-service infrastructure, standardised tooling and automation across the software delivery lifecycle. You’ll focus on cloud-native platform services, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability to support compliant, auditable systems at scale. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape golden paths and governance in a cross-functional, high-velocity setting.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud-native platform services with reliability and security controls
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and reusable modules across development, test, and production
• Operate Kubernetes-based platforms and related tooling (ingress, service mesh, secrets, policy)
• 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)
• Collaborate with development teams to enable golden paths, templates and documentation

Key requirements

• Platform/DevOps/SRE experience in complex or regulated environments (Financial Services preferred)
• Proficiency with AWS, Azure or GCP and core services (VPC/VNet, IAM, KMS, load balancing)
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience (build, upgrade, secure, troubleshoot)
• Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform and/or CloudFormation/Bicep)
• Linux administration and networking fundamentals
• Scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, Bash) for automation
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and container registries
• Security-focused mindset: secrets management, vulnerability management, least privilege, supply chain controls
• Observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk) and on-call/incident management
• Strong communication skills and ability to influence standards across teams

• strong communication
• collaboration
• influence standards across teams
• AWS/Azure/GCP
• Kubernetes
• Terraform and/or CloudFormation/Bicep

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