Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AWS Certification on company time

CKA Certification on company time

HashiCorp Certification on company

Uncapped progression

10% pension

Travel to client site

Remote first working

Job summary

Trust in SODA is seeking Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join a major government-led DevOps transformation. The role focuses on supporting, optimizing, and scaling a vast Kubernetes footprint across multiple UK sites, with a remote-first approach and client-site travel when required.

You will work with IaC, CI/CD, and observability tooling in production, gaining AWS and CKA certifications on company time to enable career progression and delivery excellence.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as Platform Engineer, Senior or Lead.
• Experience scaling large Kubernetes ecosystems in production.
• Strong knowledge of Terraform/Ansible and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Support, optimise and scale large Kubernetes platforms in production.
• Collaborate with project teams to deliver reliable services for a major government transformation.

Skills

IaC

CI/CD

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Github Actions

Jenkins

OTel

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool - hybrid

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400K Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)

What's in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Travel expenses to client site
• Remote First Working (only onsite at client request)