Platform Engineer | Contract | London

Myn; Greater London; On-site; GBP 101,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Myn in London is recruiting an experienced Platform Engineer for a contract role to build and run internal infrastructure and tooling used by product teams to ship software safely and quickly.

You will design and maintain cloud infrastructure, run Kubernetes platforms, build CI/CD pipelines, and embed security and observability across the stack.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years' experience in platform, DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and Terraform.
• Production experience running Kubernetes and containerised workloads.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows.
• Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Go or Bash.
• Right to work in the UK.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code.
• Run and improve Kubernetes platforms, including upgrades, scaling, networking and security.
• Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling.
• Develop internal developer platform capabilities and self-service infrastructure.
• Implement observability across monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting.
• Drive reliability through SLOs, incident response and post-incident reviews.
• Embed security into the platform, including secrets management and IAM.
• Optimise cloud cost and resource usage.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Cloud: AWS/Azure/GCP

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Scripting: Python/Go/Bash

UK right to work

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

ArgoCD

Flux

Job description

We're recruiting an experienced Platform Engineer for a contract role in a platform team. You'll build and run the internal infrastructure and tooling that product engineering teams use to ship software safely and quickly, improving reliability, security, cost efficiency and developer experience.

Location: London, UK
Day rate: £550–£650 per day (IR35 status to be confirmed)
Contract: Initial 6–12 months, likely extension

What you'll do:

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent)
• Run and improve Kubernetes platforms, covering upgrades, scaling, networking and security
• Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux)
• Develop internal developer platform capabilities and golden paths for self-service infrastructure
• Implement observability across monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
• Drive reliability through SLOs, incident response and post-incident reviews
• Embed security into the platform, including secrets management, IAM and policy-as-code
• Optimise cloud cost and resource usage

What you'll bring:

• 4–6 years' experience in platform, DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineering
• Strong hands‑on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and Terraform
• Production experience running Kubernetes and containerised workloads
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Go or Bash
• Right to work in the UK

Desirable: Backstage or other internal developer platforms, service mesh, Crossplane, OPA/Kyverno, regulated environments (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI‑DSS), CKA/CKAD or professional‑level cloud certifications.