Cloud Platform Engineer
- Location: London (3 days per week onsite)
- Contract: 6 months initial (high likelihood of extension)
- Rate: £600 per day
- Outside IR35
The Opportunity
We are working with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a major cloud-native transformation programme, centred around a large-scale Kubernetes and microservices adoption initiative.
This is a hands-on engineering role where you will help design, build, and stabilise the core platform layer that underpins mission-critical financial systems.
You will be joining a high-performing engineering environment focused on scalable, resilient, and production-grade cloud infrastructure.
What You’ll Be Working On
- Building and scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructure (EKS / AKS / GKE equivalent environments)
- Supporting a large-scale microservices migration from legacy systems
- Designing and implementing cloud-native platform capabilities (CI/CD, observability, automation)
- Developing and improving Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Enhancing system reliability, resilience, and deployment patterns
- Working closely with engineering teams to enable self-service platform capabilities
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve Kubernetes cluster architecture in a production environment
- Support application teams transitioning to microservices-based architecture
- Build and maintain scalable deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
- Implement observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing)
- Contribute to reliability engineering and incident response processes
- Ensure platform security, governance, and compliance requirements are met
Required Experience
We are looking for strong hands-on platform / cloud engineers with:
- Extensive experience with Kubernetes in production environments
- Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
- Proven experience working in microservices architectures
- Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
- Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines at scale
- Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
- Experience working in high-availability, production-critical environments
Nice to Have
- Financial services or regulated environment experience
- Exposure to large-scale migration or transformation programmes
- SRE / DevOps mindset with on-call experience
- Understanding of distributed systems design principles
The Environment
- Large-scale cloud transformation programme
- Engineering-led organisation with strong technical ownership
- Complex, high-impact systems supporting real-time operations
- Opportunity to shape foundational platform architecture