Platform Engineer: AI-Driven Cloud & CI/CD Expert

The Key Support Services; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Flexible hours

Holiday buy/sell

Enhanced maternity pay

Free breakfast

Free fruit

Drinks

Regular socials

Job summary

The Key is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, operate, and optimise a cloud‑based platform ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance. You will automate critical engineering processes, drive security, and champion AI agentic coding workflows to accelerate software delivery across test and production environments.

You will own monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, working with cross‑functional teams both locally and remotely.

Qualifications

• Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform)
• Experience designing and managing GCP & GKE environments
• Minimum 2 years designing/managing robust CI/CD platforms
• Minimum 2 years using GitHub or equivalent version control
• Genuine enthusiasm for AI coding agents and automation tooling
• Strong written and verbal communication for technical and non‑technical audiences
• High conscientiousness and ability to coordinate multi‑stakeholder projects locally and remotely

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver scalable cloud infrastructure upgrades and optimisations using IaC
• Optimise GKE and cloud environment for efficiency, performance and resilience
• Own incident management, observability, and post‑mortem fixes
• Build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability across prod/test
• Lead incident investigations and implement permanent fixes
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployment
• Automate manual tasks and integrate AI tooling into workflows
• Enforce platform security practices and compliance
• Collaborate with cross‑functional teams across local and remote sites

Skills

GCP

GKE

CI/CD

AI tooling

Communication

Project coordination

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Kubernetes

Job description

The Key is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, operate, and optimise a cloud‑based platform ensuring high reliability, scalability, and performance. You will automate critical engineering processes, drive security, and champion AI agentic coding workflows to accelerate software delivery across test and production environments.

You will own monitoring, CI/CD pipelines, and observability, working with cross‑functional teams both locally and remotely.