Principal Platform Engineer – AI Identity Platform (Hybrid)

IFS; Staines-upon-Thames; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IFS is building the next generation of AI‑native enterprise software. We’re hiring two Principal Platform Engineers to unify authentication and authorisation across our platform.

You will design, build and own platform services, with a focus on producing self‑service workflows and secure IAM capabilities. You should have hands‑on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and related tooling, with a background in coding (Go preferred) and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering delivering production-ready platforms and automation.

Responsibilities

• Design and build platform services, APIs and automation, owning them in production.

Skills

Platform engineering

Automation

SRE

Identity engineering

Systems integration

Go

Kubernetes

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

PKI / IAM

Tools

SpiceDB

PostgreSQL

Curity

Keycloak

Job description

IFS is building the next generation of AI‑native enterprise software. We’re hiring two Principal Platform Engineers to unify authentication and authorisation across our platform.

You will design, build and own platform services, with a focus on producing self‑service workflows and secure IAM capabilities. You should have hands‑on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, SRE, and related tooling, with a background in coding (Go preferred) and Kubernetes.