Senior Cloud & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

HelloKindred; England; Híbrido; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

HelloKindred is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join its technology team in the United Kingdom. You will design, implement and operate modern cloud and platform engineering capabilities, with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC and DevOps practices in enterprise-scale environments.

You will collaborate with architects, security specialists and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable cloud-native platforms, drive automation, and improve operational excellence.

Formación

• Extensive hands-on experience in cloud/platform engineering or DevOps within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design, build, deploy, monitor, and support production platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong practical knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes, including highly available, secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, version control, and controlled production deployments.
• Working knowledge of Docker, Helm, service mesh technologies, Python, cloud-native deployment tools, monitoring, logging, and alerting platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations and addressing governance, security, resilience, capacity management, and operational readiness challenges.
• Sound understanding of cloud financial management, resource governance, and cost optimisation, with the ability to identify and implement measurable improvements.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices, architecture governance, compliance requirements, risk management, and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within Agile, Scrum, and DevOps delivery frameworks.
• Experience evaluating, integrating, or operating multi-vendor Large Language Model (LLM) workloads within AWS and Kubernetes environments is desirable.
• Previous experience in a highly regulated industry, particularly financial services or banking, is desirable.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence is advantageous.
• Relevant cloud, Kubernetes, or DevOps certifications are advantageous.

Responsabilidades

• Contribute to cloud, DevOps, and platform engineering initiatives across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes to deliver secure, scalable, and highly available infrastructure capabilities.
• Work within one or more engineering pods to define technical requirements, conduct design reviews, and provide hands-on engineering support throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Design, build, configure, and operate AWS-based solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), primarily Terraform, to improve consistency, reliability, and deployment efficiency.
• Develop and enhance Kubernetes platform capabilities to support increasing demand while improving resilience, scalability, performance, operational efficiency, and developer experience.
• Implement and maintain cloud cost management practices, including resource tagging, allocation, rightsizing, capacity planning, usage monitoring, and cost optimisation strategies.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of open-source technologies and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions, ensuring alignment with security, privacy, licensing, regulatory, and operational requirements.
• Apply robust release management and production-readiness processes, including automation, deployment governance, monitoring, alerting, logging, rollback procedures, and incident preparedness.
• Collaborate with Cloud Services, Application DevOps, Architecture, Security, Risk, Compliance, and IT teams to achieve platform standards, remediation activities, and delivery objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability, security, observability, and operational excellence.

Conocimientos

AWS

Kubernetes

DevOps

Terraform

CI/CD

Docker

Helm

Python

Monitoring

Logging

Security

Agile/Scrum

LLM workloads

Stakeholder comms

Herramientas

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Helm

Python

CI/CD tooling

IaC tooling

Descripción del empleo

HelloKindred is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join its technology team in the United Kingdom. You will design, implement and operate modern cloud and platform engineering capabilities, with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, IaC and DevOps practices in enterprise-scale environments.

You will collaborate with architects, security specialists and stakeholders to deliver secure, scalable cloud-native platforms, drive automation, and improve operational excellence.