Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing engineering team building secure, cloud infrastructure for highly regulated environments.

This is an opportunity to work on large-scale DevSecOps and platform engineering projects, helping design, deploy and maintain resilient infrastructure using modern cloud technologies. You'll work across infrastructure, automation and software engineering, collaborating with product and engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions.

This is a remote UK-based position with occasional travel to customer locations when required.

Security Requirements

Candidates must be eligible to obtain Developed Vetting (DV) clearance. Active DV clearance is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design and build secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes and Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and maintain cloud platforms across AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines using DevSecOps best practices.
• Deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and containerised applications.
• Develop infrastructure tooling and microservices using Go (Golang).
• Implement monitoring, logging and security tooling to improve platform reliability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to deliver infrastructure aligned to business requirements.
• Produce clear technical documentation and deployment processes.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues.
• Contribute to platform architecture and engineering best practices.

Skills & Experience

• 5+ years' experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform or similar).
• Commercial experience with Go (or similar languages such as Rust).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability tools.
• Understanding of cloud networking and security best practices.
• Experience working within Agile software teams.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable

• AWS, Azure or Google Cloud certifications.
• Experience working within regulated or security-conscious industries.
• Experience with GitLab.
• Familiarity with compliance and secure software delivery practices.
• Passion for modern cloud infrastructure and platform engineering.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Private healthcare
• Pension contribution
• Annual training budget
• Home office allowance
• Flexible holiday
• Enhanced parental leave
• Remote-first working
• Employee referral scheme