Salary: £100,000 – 100,000 per year
Requirements:
- Proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to technical and non-technical audiences
- Significant expertise in use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and automation tools
- Fluency in at least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, or Groovy
- Experience designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform
- Experience producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective, and minimize lock-in
- Experience contributing to technical decisions, architecture, estimation, product planning, and advocating for MVP
- Experience implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production
- Experience applying industry best practices across infrastructure and application components (security, elasticity, performance)
- Proficiency using AWS public cloud platforms to solve business problems
- Experience applying configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and container orchestration tooling
- Experience using modern version control systems including git
- Ability to debug complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools
- Active Security Clearance is required
- Third level or equivalent qualification in a related discipline is desirable
- Mid-level certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure) is preferred
- Experience managing, mentoring, and coaching junior staff is highly valued
Responsibilities:
- Lead the design of significant components of a modern digital service platform, including automation, build, deployment, and support
- Work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security to build and deploy high-quality software
- Ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit while aligning with industry standards
- Support colleagues and facilitate an inclusive DevOps culture within the team
- Drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable, and performant
- Manage services through Live Operation, ensuring availability and performance once users start interacting with the system
- Proactively coach and mentor more junior members of the team as a role model for our values
- Continuously learn about new technologies and approaches to improve services and develop specialisms
Technologies:
- AWS
- Azure
- Bash
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Git
- Groovy
- Support
- PowerShell
- Python
- Ruby
- Security
- PaaS
More:
We are problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators at Kainos, driven by a shared mission to create real impact through digital transformation and cutting-edge Workday solutions. We believe in a people-first culture where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration in a fast-paced environment. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, actively seeking talented people from all backgrounds and providing a level playing field through a supportive recruitment process. Join us to shape the future of digital services while being part of something bigger.
last updated 40 week of 2026
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