Platform Engineer

Trafigura; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the energy sector seeks an experienced Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join its growing team in London. The role focuses on delivering and managing infrastructure-as-code solutions for private cloud platforms, including Kubernetes and High-Performance Computing. Candidates should possess strong skills in cloud integration, automation, and platform management, along with a background in Linux and CI/CD practices.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Platform Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms like Azure and AWS.
• Experience deploying Kubernetes clusters and automating with IaC tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain platform offerings such as Kubernetes and HPC.
• Build and manage infrastructure using Terraform and Ansible.
• Collaborate with teams to support platform enablement and project delivery.

Skills

Linux administration

Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Network fundamentals

Problem-solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Main Purpose: 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. Knowledge Skills and Abilities, Key Responsibilities:

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.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Specialist Knowledge:

• 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, get etc

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals, storage management and performance tuning

Educational Background:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science; information technology or a related field.

Professional Experience:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in Infrastructure Platform Engineering.

Competencies

• Problem-solving

• Ability to improve business processes

• Able to use initiative

• Strategic planning

Key Relationships and Department Overview:

Key Relationships

• Platform Engineering Team

• Vendor management

• Windows Engineering Team

• Outsourced IT management

Department

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.