Forward-Deployed Platform Engineer: Cloud & GenAI

Kyndryl Inc.

United Kingdom

On-site

GBP 100,000 - 140,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Kyndryl Inc. in the United Kingdom seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer (Band 8) focused on Platform Engineering to own end-to-end delivery for cloud platform modernization, including foundations for generative AI and agentic systems.

You translate business challenges into target-state cloud solutions, lead design and deployment, and collaborate with AI engineers to keep platform and AI workstreams integrated, with IaC and automation accelerating delivery and reliability.

Qualifications

5+ years hands-on experience in solution and platform architecture for client-facing infra modernisations.
Experience with Azure, GCP, and/or AWS landing zones, networking, IAM, cost controls.
Production experience with Kubernetes, GitOps delivery (ArgoCD), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
Hands-on experience implementing security end-to-end: CI/CD tooling, namespace segmentation, and secure access in landing zones and hyperscaler.
Hands-on experience with SSL/TLS certificate management, DNS zone administration, and secure network access to endpoints.
Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git & GitHub), and microservices/API architectures.
Practical experience with observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
Working knowledge of generative AI platforms: LLM hosting, LLM gateways, and MLOps/LLMOps.

Responsibilities

Translate business challenges into target-state cloud platforms across Azure, GCP, and AWS.
Build enterprise container platforms (Kubernetes) and GitOps-based delivery (ArgoCD).
Build self-service developer environments and secure landing zones.
Support platforms that host generative AI systems (LLM hosting, LLM gateways).
Own delivery end-to-end: build CI/CD pipelines and implement Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm).
Guide legacy application modernisation and API integrations.
Implement security end-to-end across the platform: CI/CD tooling and access controls.
Own connectivity and network-level security: certificate lifecycle management and DNS zone administration.
Define architectural standards and guardrails with policy-as-code and access controls.
Instrument platforms for observability (Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
Capture deployment learnings and share best practices to inform core platform frameworks.
Contribute code and blueprints to core platform teams.