Senior Platform Engineer

Pathfinder; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Pathfinder is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in London with hands-on Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform experience to design, build and maintain cloud platforms. The role supports a major digital transformation while ensuring security, reliability and availability of services.

You will work on deployment pipelines, automation and monitoring, and you will take ownership of platform issues, collaborating with engineering teams across the UK and India. The role is hybrid with one day onsite weekly.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform experience.
• Senior-level experience delivering cloud platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, automation and monitoring.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security, microservices and containerisation.
• Confidence making technical decisions and taking ownership of delivery and operational issues.
• Clear communication with engineering colleagues and stakeholders.
• MongoDB and financial services experience are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and improve secure, scalable and highly available Azure platforms.
• Support platform changes while maintaining existing services.
• Improve deployment pipelines, automation and monitoring.
• Contribute to technical decisions, review code and designs, and improve engineering practices.
• Take ownership of platform issues and work across teams to resolve them.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD

Monitoring

Cloud security

Cloud networking

Microservices

Containerisation

Delivery ownership

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer

London, hybrid, one day a week onsite

Up to £90,000 + 10% cash benefit + 10% pension + bonus

We’re recruiting a Senior Platform Engineer with hands on Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform experience for a major financial services organisation in London. You’ll design, build and maintain cloud platforms, supporting a significant digital transformation programme while keeping existing services secure, reliable and available.

This is a senior engineering role combining practical delivery with responsibility for technical decisions and improvements, working closely with engineering teams and stakeholders across the UK and India.

The Role

• Design, build and improve secure, scalable and highly available Azure platforms.
• Support platform changes while maintaining existing services.
• Improve deployment pipelines, automation and monitoring.
• Contribute to technical decisions, review code and designs, and improve engineering practices.
• Take ownership of platform issues and work across teams to resolve them.

Requirements

• Hands on Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes and Terraform experience.
• Senior level experience designing, delivering and operating cloud platforms.
• Experience with CI/CD, infrastructure automation and monitoring.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security, microservices and containerisation.
• Confidence making technical decisions and taking ownership of delivery and operational issues.
• Clear communication and experience working with engineering colleagues and stakeholders.
• MongoDB and financial services experience are desirable.