Platform Engineer

Insight Global

London

On-site

GBP 104,151 - 133,909

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a financial services client in London. The role involves overseeing IAM management, implementing security practices, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Strong skills in development, cybersecurity, and scripting are required, along with experience in high-availability systems. This is a contract-to-hire position.

Qualifications

Experience as a Platform Engineer focused on Development, SRE and DevOps.
Hands-on experience with scripting in Python and GO.
Experience in Cybersecurity pertaining to authentication and authorization.

Responsibilities

Oversee IAM Secrets and encryption services.
Implement security best practices for platform reliability.
Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.

Skills

Platform Engineering focused on Development

Scripting in Python and GO

Cybersecurity best practices

Secrets management platforms

Infrastructure as code using Terraform

Monitoring and logging tools

Containerization using Kubernetes

Windows or Linux support

High-availability systems architecture

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

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Insight global is looking for a Platform Engineer to join one of the largest financial services clients globally for a contract to hire opportunity located in London. The chosen candidate will be joining the IAM Management and support team specifically overseeing IAM Secrets and encryption services and be involved in ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of their secrets management platform and infrastructure whilst implementing security best practices. This role involves working collaboratively with cross-functional teams and implementing new functional features, operational improvements, and cyber security practices under the guidance of senior team members to enhance our operational efficiency and security posture. This platform is one of the most critical pieces within the firms infrastructure, processing over 150 million requests a day, as such, the chosen candidate will have to be heavily involved in all areas of the team (i.e. development, operations and security) whilst exercising good judgement and having high attention to detail.

Qualifications:

Experience as a Platform Engineer focused on Development, SRE and DevOps
Hands-on experience with scripting using Python and GO
Experience in Cybersecurity in terms of authentication, authorization, cybersecurity common patterns and implementing best practices
Exposure to secrets management platforms (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)
Familiarity with infrastructure as code using Terraform
Experience with monitoring, logging, and security tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, and BQL)
Expertise in containerization and orchestration using Kubernetes for deployments
Experience supporting either Windows or Linux environments.
Experience working with high-availability systems architecture and the ability to support critical scalable and robust systems
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong written and verbal communication skills in terms of stakeholder management

Seniority level

Seniority level
Associate

Employment type

Employment type
Contract

Job function

Job function
Information Technology

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