Staff Platform Engineer

Posted 1 day 7 hours ago by Burns Sheehan

Permanent
Full Time
Other
London, United Kingdom
Job Description
Overview

Staff Platform Engineer - London - £600 - £800/day (OUTSIDE IR35)

Are you a pragmatic and automation-focused Staff Platform Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable systems? Do you have strong communication skills and a desire to work closely with product teams?

A company that builds an AI-powered project delivery platform is seeking a skilled Staff Platform Engineer to join their team. This organization helps businesses streamline the process from ideation to completion and is looking for someone to build a scalable and reliable foundation for their development teams.

Responsibilities
  • Developer Platform: Build and maintain a robust developer platform that prioritizes reliability and velocity.
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Implement and manage cloud infrastructure, networking, and security baselines.
  • Automation: Create automated provisioning and management of environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
  • CI/CD & Observability: Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and observability systems (logging, metrics, traces).
  • SRE Practices: Apply SRE principles, including incident response, reliability key performance indicators (KPIs), and capacity planning.
Must-Have Experience
  • Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Containers & Orchestration: Deep expertise with containers, with Docker being a must.
  • IaC: Proven experience using tools like Terraform or Ansible for environment provisioning and automation.
  • CI/CD: Strong background in building and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.
Nice-to-Have
  • HashiCorp Stack: Experience with the HashiCorp suite, including Nomad, secrets management, and policy-as-code.
  • Data/ML Teams: Experience supporting data, machine learning, and service teams.

If you're a Platform Engineer ready to drive security transformation at an innovative project delivery platform, please apply!

Staff Platform Engineer - London - £600 - £800/day (OUTSIDE IR35)

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.