Platform Engineer

Trafigura; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global commodity trading firm is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join their growing infrastructure team. This role involves managing infrastructure-as-code solutions for private cloud platforms, including Kubernetes and HPC environments. Candidates should have at least 5 years of experience in managing cloud infrastructure and deploying Kubernetes clusters. The position requires a bachelor's degree in computer science and expertise in automation tools. The company promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Platform Engineering.
• Solid understanding of Linux system administration and container technologies.
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain platform offerings such as Kubernetes.
• Build and manage infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Collaborate with teams to support platform enablement and project delivery.

Skills

Infrastructure Platform Engineering

Linux system administration

Kubernetes management

Automation tooling

CI/CD workflows

Networking fundamentals

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Azure DevOps

VMware Automation tools

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join our well established but growing infrastructure team. This role will focus on delivering and managing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) solutions to support private cloud-based platforms, including Kubernetes clusters and High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. The engineer will also support integration with hybrid and public cloud services to ensure robust, scalable, and efficient platform operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain platform offerings such as Kubernetes, server build automation and High-Performance Computing
• Build and manage infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Helm.
• Develop and maintain scalable and secure platform architectures supporting containerized, distributed, and high-performance applications.
• Ensure consistent automation, provisioning, and configuration management across environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps, application, and research teams to support platform enablement and project delivery.
• Integrate on-premises infrastructure with hybrid/public cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS) to extend or federate compute resources.
• Monitor, tune, and troubleshoot platform performance and availability.
• Manage system upgrades, patching, backup, and disaster recovery for key infrastructure components.
• Maintain compliance with security and governance standards.
• Document systems architecture, runbooks, and configuration as part of a knowledge-sharing culture.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Platform Engineering
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science; information technology or a related field
• Solid understanding of Linux system administration, virtualization, and container technologies
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating IaC workflows with tools like GitLab CI, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps
• Hands-on experience deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters (e.g., VKS [Tanzu], EKS Anywhere, Rancher, OpenShift, etc)
• VMware Automation experience (e.g. vRealize or Aria Automation)
• Strong understanding of automation tooling and programming languages such as Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, Ansible
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, storage management and performance tuning

Attributes for success

• Problem-solving
• Ability to improve business processes
• Able to use initiative
• Strategic planning

Key Relationships

• Outsourced IT management

Department Overview

Trafigura Group IT provides shared services across the Trafigura group of companies, offering services at scale where it makes economic sense.

Reporting Structure

The engineer will report to the Platform Architect and will join a team of six other engineers who work in a collaborative team covering the Storage, Linux and Virtualisation towers.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse workforce. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or handicap, disability, or any other legally protected status.