Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native, Self-Service Infra

Jobtailor; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a platform engineer to design, operate, and improve highly available cloud services in AWS, including Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines. You will own complex features from conception to production and help reduce cognitive load through self-service tooling.

You will collaborate with Information Security and cost teams to tighten controls, improve cloud efficiency, and guide the platform roadmap.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, operating production infra in AWS (IAM, EC2, EKS, RDS, MSK, S3, VPC).
• Experience scaling multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters and production Kafka or streaming platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes upgrades, reliability, security, and incident response.
• Infra as code, pipeline-as-code, containerization, and cloud-native systems.
• Terraform, Helm, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, or Kubernetes.
• Observability and tuning of PostgreSQL in production.
• Experience with Datadog or Prometheus.
• Strong software-engineering or scripting skills (Python, Go, etc.).
• Track record of solving ambiguous cross-functional problems and communicating tradeoffs.
• Experience elevating developer productivity or developer experience.
• Interest in cryptocurrencies/blockchain; willingness to learn.
• Authorized to work in United Kingdom without restrictions.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and continuously improve highly available platform services including Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, CI/CD systems.
• Build secure, scalable infrastructure across AWS and other clouds using IaC and automation.
• Improve production reliability via SLOs, graceful degradation, and automated recovery.
• Create self-service workflows and platform abstractions to reduce cognitive load for R&D teams.
• Partner with Information Security, Cost Optimization, and engineering teams to strengthen controls.
• Influence technical direction and contribute to platform roadmap.
• Own complex technical work from inception through production.
• Help create highly available, observable, secure, and user-friendly systems for engineers.

Skills

Cross-Functional Communication

Problem Solving

Software Engineering

Education

ISO 27001

NIST 800-171

SOC 2

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Ansible

Jenkins

Docker

Python

Go

PostgreSQL

GitHub Actions

Datadog

Prometheus

Kafka

IAM

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a platform engineer to design, operate, and improve highly available cloud services in AWS, including Kubernetes clusters, Kafka, and CI/CD pipelines. You will own complex features from conception to production and help reduce cognitive load through self-service tooling.

You will collaborate with Information Security and cost teams to tighten controls, improve cloud efficiency, and guide the platform roadmap.