IT & Software

Platform Engineer

Source Group International

Remote · Nationwide · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you design, build and operate secure, resilient platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver reliably within a regulated Financial Services environment. You’ll partner with engineering, security and operations to provide self-service infrastructure, standardised tooling and automation across the software delivery lifecycle. You’ll focus on cloud-native platform services, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and observability to support compliant, auditable systems at scale. This is a hands-on opportunity to shape golden paths and governance in a cross-functional, high-velocity setting.

Responsibilities
  • Build and maintain cloud-native platform services with reliability and security controls
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code and reusable modules across development, test, and production
  • Operate Kubernetes-based platforms and related tooling (ingress, service mesh, secrets, policy)
  • Improve CI/CD pipelines, artefact management and release automation
  • Embed observability (logging, metrics, tracing, alerting) and incident response practices
  • Harden platforms to meet regulatory expectations (auditability, access control, change management, data protection)
  • Collaborate with development teams to enable golden paths, templates and documentation
Key requirements
  • Platform/DevOps/SRE experience in complex or regulated environments (Financial Services preferred)
  • Proficiency with AWS, Azure or GCP and core services (VPC/VNet, IAM, KMS, load balancing)
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience (build, upgrade, secure, troubleshoot)
  • Infrastructure as Code expertise (Terraform and/or CloudFormation/Bicep)
  • Linux administration and networking fundamentals
  • Scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, Bash) for automation
  • Experience with CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps) and container registries
  • Security-focused mindset: secrets management, vulnerability management, least privilege, supply chain controls
  • Observability tooling experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Splunk) and on-call/incident management
  • Strong communication skills and ability to influence standards across teams
  • strong communication
  • collaboration
  • influence standards across teams
  • AWS/Azure/GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform and/or CloudFormation/Bicep

Reference: WJ-747_31199861

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