Platform Engineer - Consultancy

Hamilton Barnes; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 96,000 - 126,000; Full time

Job summary

Hamilton Barnes in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to join a hybrid contract engagement, embedding with client teams to design cloud-native platforms and internal developer platforms that accelerate delivery and improve reliability.

You will build CI/CD pipelines, automation tooling, and observability into every layer, applying infrastructure-as-code and treating infrastructure as code to reduce toil and raise the technical baseline across projects.

Qualifications

• Production cloud experience with major provider (AWS, GCP or Azure).
• Programming in Go, Python or Java for infra problems.
• Kubernetes in production with containerisation and orchestration.
• Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane.
• Distributed systems concepts and observability stacks knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve cloud-native platforms and internal developer platforms.
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.
• Stabilise unreliable infrastructure and reduce toil.
• Treat infrastructure as code with testing and observability across layers.
• Communicate trade-offs clearly through architecture notes and records.
• Help client teams adopt faster, safer development practices.

Skills

Cloud deployments

Go

Python

Java

Kubernetes

Terraform

Pulumi

Crossplane

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?

Join a vibrant platform engineering,software delivery,and cloud strategy consultancy dedicated to accelerating product delivery and elevating developer experience.By building internal developer platforms,paved paths,and modern engineering workflows,the organization empowers enterprise clients to ship software faster and operate with greater reliability at scale.

The company is seeking a Platform Engineer to join on a hybrid contract basis in Canary Wharf,London.Sitting at the intersection of infrastructure and software development,the successful candidate will embed directly with client engineering teams to raise the technical baseline—improving how cloud platforms are architected,how software reaches production,and how engineering teams operate with confidence.

Responsibilities:

• Design and evolve cloud-native platforms, internal developer platforms, and shared infrastructure that accelerate delivery across engineering teams
• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling that make software delivery faster, safer, and repeatable
• Stabilise unreliable infrastructure, reduce toil, address platform gaps, and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
• Apply a software engineering approach to infrastructure, treating it as code, establishing testing practices, and driving observability into every layer
• Communicate clearly through design notes, architecture records, and stakeholder conversations, making trade-offs explicit
• Help client teams develop the habits, tooling, and practices that let them move faster without sacrificing quality or control

Skills/Must Have:

• Battle-hardened production experience, ideally with large cloud deployments, with hands-on experience of at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, or Java), writing software to solve infrastructure problems
• Kubernetes in production, with strong containerisation and orchestration experience
• Everything-as-Code, immutable infrastructure, and automation experience, with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
• Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs and the Software and Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycles, with strong communication skills - desirable: Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, service mesh, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Contract Details:

• Location: Hybrid (3x a week) in Canary Wharf
• Contract Length: [TBC]

Salary:

• £600 per day Inside IR35