Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - AWS/Kubernetes, DevOps

IG Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Flexible Benefits Package (12%)

Private medical cover

Life insurance

Gym membership

25 Days holiday + Birthday + Volunteer

Job summary

IG Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team in City of London. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, with IaC, automation, and security best practices to support trading platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps and DevSecOps maturity, and partner with Security, FinOps, and Dev teams to deliver reliable, cost-aware services. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of cloud infrastructure engineering across AWS, GCP, Azure with networking knowledge.
• 2+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible) and automation (AWX, Ansible Tower, Terragrunt).
• 2+ years building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab) with security practices.
• 2+ years Kubernetes administration across cloud/on‑prem (EKS preferred).
• Experience developer portals (Backstage) and artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory, Nexus).
• Hands-on with monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb) and reliability practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable AWS infrastructure with Terraform IaC.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps practices.
• Manage Kubernetes environments (EKS/AKS/GKE) and platform tooling.
• Define monitoring, alerting, and observability standards.
• Collaborate with Dev, Security, and FinOps; mentor junior engineers.
• Write documentation and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Backstage

Observability

Security best practices

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWX/Ansible Tower

Terragrunt

Python

Bash

Go

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE)

Backstage

JFrog Artifactory

Nexus

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

IG Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team in City of London. You will design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure across AWS, with IaC, automation, and security best practices to support trading platforms.

You will mentor engineers, drive DevOps and DevSecOps maturity, and partner with Security, FinOps, and Dev teams to deliver reliable, cost-aware services. Hybrid work model offered.