Senior Platform Engineer

Yolk Recruitment Ltd; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic recruitment firm based in Cardiff is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive cloud-native infrastructure initiatives. You will enhance observability and automate processes while working with GCP, Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps. This role offers a competitive salary of up to £80,000, flexible working hours, and excellent benefits including share schemes.

Benefits

Flexible working

Annual share scheme

Up to 38 days holiday

Qualifications

• Proven experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes (GKE).
• Hands-on expertise deploying and managing workloads using Helm charts.
• Strong skills in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code delivery.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Azure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Drive platform engineering maturity by delivering cloud-native infrastructure.
• Enhance observability and automate operational processes.
• Create efficient, reliable environments and promote knowledge sharing.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes (GKE)

Helm charts

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

Git version control

GitOps principles

Observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana)

Bash or Python scripting

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer
Cardiff / Hybrid
Up to £80,000 + annual share scheme + excellent benefits

What You'll Do:

You'll help drive platform engineering maturity by delivering cloud-native infrastructure, scalable CI/CD tooling, and shared services that empower cross-functional teams. Your focus will be on enhancing observability, automating operational processes, and ensuring that systems are well-documented and supportable.

Working with tools such as GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps, you'll create efficient, reliable environments while promoting a culture of standardisation and proactive knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

What You'll Bring:

• Proven experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes (GKE)
• Hands-on expertise deploying and managing workloads using Helm charts
• Strong skills in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code delivery
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps
• Solid grasp of Git version control and GitOps principles
• Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Operations Suite
• Scripting ability with tools like Bash or Python
• Understanding of shared service models, access control, and platform support processes
• Desirable: experience with ArgoCD and service mesh platforms such as Anthos

Why You Should Apply:

You'll join a people-first team that encourages innovation, supports career development, and values shared knowledge. With flexible working, up to 38 days holiday and free shares each year, this is an opportunity to build scalable infrastructure while shaping the future of a collaborative platform engineering culture.

Ready to Apply?

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