Hybrid Principal Platform Engineer – AI-Auth & Platform

IFS; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is seeking two Principal Platform Engineers to unify authentication and authorisation across our Enterprise software platform. You will design and build platform services, own them in production, and enable teams to deliver securely with automated, self‑service workflows.

You will work on a cloud-native, multi‑tenant environment with Kubernetes, IaC, and Go tooling, shaping the next generation of AI-native software used by global organisations.

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience building and operating platforms or shared infrastructure.
• Strong coding and scripting skills applied to infrastructure, automation, deployment tooling or integrations.
• Experience automating provisioning, configuration, deployment and operational tasks through version‑controlled, repeatable workflows.
• Production experience with Kubernetes and containers in an environment delivering and operating software.
• Practical experience with a major public cloud platform, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and GitOps.
• Experience building reusable platform capabilities or self‑service workflows that reduce manual work for engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services, APIs and automation, own them in production.
• Establish patterns that product engineering teams can adopt confidently.
• Make secure authentication and authorisation available through self‑service workflows.
• Write and review infrastructure and automation code, build platform integrations.
• Contribute to tooling and services, including Go-based components.

Skills

Platform engineering

Automation

Go

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Software engineering

Tools

SpiceDB

Keycloak

Curity

PostgreSQL

Kafka

RedPanda

Job description

IFS is seeking two Principal Platform Engineers to unify authentication and authorisation across our Enterprise software platform. You will design and build platform services, own them in production, and enable teams to deliver securely with automated, self‑service workflows.

You will work on a cloud-native, multi‑tenant environment with Kubernetes, IaC, and Go tooling, shaping the next generation of AI-native software used by global organisations.