Senior Platform Engineer

Salary: £80,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• Demonstrated track record in a Senior Platform, Infrastructure, or Cloud Engineering role, with prior experience in financial services or similarly regulated enterprise settings strongly preferred.
• Deep practical mastery of Microsoft Azure architecture, covering core infrastructure services, IAM/Entra ID, network security policies, landing zones, and cloud governance frameworks.
• Advanced Terraform capabilities, with proven ability to build clean, modular, and reusable IaC templates to manage cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
• Solid hands-on proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm; sound understanding of declarative configuration management and automated environment promotion.
• Production experience designing, hardening, and automating continuous integration and delivery pipelines using GitLab CI or comparable platforms.
• Strong shell automation skills (PowerShell, Bash) alongside practical coding capability in a modern language such as Python or Go, with expert use of YAML.
• Experience implementing monitoring, tracing, and logging stacks using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent enterprise tools.
• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate technical risk, architecture decisions, and operational standards to both technical peers and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as a hands-on technical lead within the Platform & Infrastructure practice, driving the execution of our enterprise cloud and platform roadmap.
• Design, provision, and maintain a resilient, secure, and scalable Azure cloud estate spanning core compute, software-defined networking, storage, identity, and governance guardrails.
• Architect and optimise enterprise CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivery using GitLab, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps-aligned release patterns.
• Establish reusable platform components, reference architectures, and golden paths to accelerate application delivery while enforcing strict regulatory, security, and compliance baselines.
• Partner closely with solutions architects, application engineering teams, and Group infrastructure counterparts to lead cloud adoption, microservice migration, and operational readiness.
• Drive end-to-end telemetry and observability initiatives across the platform estate, utilising centralised logging and metrics to ensure high availability and performance.
• Produce production-grade technical artifacts, architectural diagrams, runbooks, and implementation blueprints to continuously raise internal engineering standards.

Technologies:

• Architect
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GitLab
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• IAM
• Kubernetes
• Network
• PowerShell
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Splunk
• Terraform
• DevOps

More:

We are partnering with one of Europes most prestigious wealth managers, backed by a globally renowned private banking group with deep heritage and stability. Our client manages several billion in assets across the UK. This is a permanent Senior Platform Engineer role based in London with a hybrid working pattern of one day per week onsite, offering up to £100,000 per annum. As part of a major technology modernisation push, we are appointing a senior, high-impact engineer to drive the technical design, evolution, and automation of our enterprise Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes platform ecosystem within a highly regulated environment.

last updated 40 week of 2026