Senior Platform Engineer: Build Scalable, Secure Cloud Infra

KDR Talent Solutions; England; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Enhanced holiday

Pension plan

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer passionate about building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure. The ideal candidate will design and operate platforms that power mission-critical workloads, work with modern tooling, and influence architecture decisions. Key qualifications include extensive DevOps experience, expertise with Kubernetes, and proficiency in CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. This full-time role offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in DevOps or platform engineering roles operating production systems at scale.
• Strong expertise with Kubernetes, containers, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience building reliable CI/CD pipelines and automation-first platforms.
• Deep understanding of Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Comfortable working autonomously in complex, fast-moving environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate highly available infrastructure platforms for compute workloads.
• Automate provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines for reliable deployments.
• Implement observability, monitoring, and incident response best practices.

Skills

DevOps experience

Kubernetes expertise

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipeline development

Linux knowledge

Networking skills

Distributed systems understanding

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools

Job description

A recruitment agency is seeking a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer passionate about building and operating reliable, scalable infrastructure. The ideal candidate will design and operate platforms that power mission-critical workloads, work with modern tooling, and influence architecture decisions. Key qualifications include extensive DevOps experience, expertise with Kubernetes, and proficiency in CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code. This full-time role offers competitive compensation and excellent benefits.