Role Overview
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join on a hybrid contract based in Canary Wharf (3 days on-site). The role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and software development, embedding with client engineering teams to raise the engineering baseline: improving how platforms are built, how software reaches production, and how teams operate with greater reliability and confidence at scale.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and evolve cloud-native platforms, internal developer platforms, and shared infrastructure that accelerate delivery across engineering teams
- Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling that make software delivery faster, safer, and repeatable
- Stabilise unreliable infrastructure, reduce toil, address platform gaps, and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
- Apply a software engineering approach to infrastructure, treating it as code, establishing testing practices, and driving observability into every layer
- Communicate clearly through design notes, architecture records, and stakeholder conversations, making trade-offs explicit
- Help client teams develop the habits, tooling, and practices that let them move faster without sacrificing quality or control
Top 5 Skills
- Battle-hardened production experience, ideally with large cloud deployments, with hands-on experience of at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, or Java), writing software to solve infrastructure problems
- Kubernetes in production, with strong containerisation and orchestration experience
- Everything-as-Code, immutable infrastructure, and automation experience, with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
- Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs and the Software and Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycles, with strong communication skills - desirable: Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, service mesh, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
Contract Details:
- Rate: up to £800 per day Inside IR35
- Location: Hybrid (3x a week) in Canary Wharf
- Contract Length: 6 months (Initially)
Rate:
£800/day
Location:
Canary Wharf
IR35 Status:
Inside
Remote Status:
Hybrid
Industry:
IT
Seniority Level:
Not Specified