Cloud Platform Engineer
Posted Today by Dynamic Search Solutions
£600 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Cloud Platform Engineer role is focused on supporting a major cloud-native transformation within a leading financial services organization. The position involves hands-on engineering work to design, build, and stabilize a core platform layer that supports critical financial systems, with a strong emphasis on Kubernetes and microservices. The role requires collaboration with engineering teams to enhance system reliability and implement cloud-native capabilities. This is a six-month contract with a high likelihood of extension, based in London with a hybrid working arrangement.
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
Key Skills:
- 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
Salary (Rate): £600 daily
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
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