Senior Platform Engineer

Trust In SODA; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

AWS Certification

CKA Certification

HashiCorp Certification

Progression

Pension 10%

Travel Expenses

Hybrid Working

Job summary

Trust In SODA is seeking Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join a high-profile K8s project in Europe, impacting public-sector digital transformation in the UK. You will work on large-scale Kubernetes deployments, using Terraform, Ansible, and strong CI/CD practices in production environments.

You will also gain AWS and CKA certifications and advance with a defined progression path while enjoying hybrid working and an attractive pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Senior/Lead Platform Engineer with hands-on Kubernetes scale experience.
• Experience with large-scale deployments and cloud-native tooling.
• Ability to operate in production environments using IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Support, optimise and scale the K8s project.
• Implement and manage IaC and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with teams to improve observability and performance.

Skills

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Github Actions

Jenkins

OTel

Dynatrace

Grafana

Job description

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400 Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)

What’s in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Travel expenses to client site
• Hybrid Working

If you’re passionate about working with K8s at scale and keen to work on one of the country’s most high-profile digital transformations then