Platform Engineer

Harrington Starr; City Of London; Híbrido; GBP 110.000 - 140.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Harrington Starr in City of London seeks a Principal Platform Engineer to shape the fintech platform with hands-on leadership. You’ll own platform architecture, drive cloud and Kubernetes hardening, and implement GitOps for deployment automation.

Join a well-funded UK fintech and help ensure security, resilience and production readiness while mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards. This is a hybrid role with two days in the office.

Formación

• Hands-on platform engineering leadership is required.
• Strong experience with AWS cloud and Kubernetes production environments.
• Experience shaping platform architecture, security and reliability.

Responsabilidades

• Platform architecture and technical direction.
• Kubernetes and cloud hardening.
• GitOps and deployment automation.
• Security, resilience and disaster recovery.
• Observability and production readiness.
• Repeatable customer environment provisioning.
• Mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards.

Conocimientos

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

GitOps

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Herramientas

AWS

Kubernetes

EKS

Terraform

Argo CD

GitHub Actions

Helm

Grafana

VictoriaMetrics

Descripción del empleo

Principal Platform Engineer | AWS | Kubernetes | GitOps - City of London - Hybrid (2 days in the office)

Salary: £110,000 - £140,000

For engineers who want to shape the platform — not just run it.

We’re working with a well-funded UK fintech entering an exciting phase of commercial growth, and we’re looking for a Principal Platform Engineer to help define what comes next.

This is a genuine hands-on technical leadership role. You’ll have the autonomy to challenge the existing platform, make architectural decisions, build better patterns and raise the engineering bar.

The stack:

• AWS
• EKS
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Argo CD
• GitHub Actions
• Helm
• Grafana
• VictoriaMetrics

You’ll be tackling:

• Platform architecture and technical direction
• Kubernetes and cloud hardening
• GitOps and deployment automation
• Security, resilience and disaster recovery
• Observability and production readiness
• Repeatable customer environment provisioning
• Mentoring engineers and establishing engineering standards
• We’re looking for someone with deep production experience across AWS and Kubernetes, strong engineering judgement and a track record of building platforms that are secure, resilient and scalable.
• Fintech, regulated environments or SaaS experience is a strong plus.

It’s an opportunity to get your hands on the platform, influence the technology and help build the foundations of a growing financial technology business.

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