Senior Platform Engineer — DevOps, Kubernetes & Cloud

TripConnect; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Greater London is seeking a highly motivated Systems Engineer to play a vital role in enhancing developer productivity and business value. You will collaborate with product teams to design platform solutions and promote DevOps practices within the Engineering Platform Team. The ideal candidate has over five years of experience and hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS services. This position offers competitive compensation and flexibility in work arrangements.

Benefits

Competitive compensation packages

Flexible work arrangements

Tuition assistance

Travel perks

Employee assistance program

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a systems, infrastructure, or platform engineer.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes in a production environment.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product teams to co-design platform solutions.
• Promote DevOps practices and a culture of collaboration.
• Mentor other engineers and define standards across teams.

Skills

Kubernetes (K8s)

AWS services (EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS)

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)

Linux systems knowledge

Monitoring/logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)

GitOps workflows (Argo CD)

Root Cause Analysis (RCA)

Communication skills

Automation mindset

Job description

A leading technology company in Greater London is seeking a highly motivated Systems Engineer to play a vital role in enhancing developer productivity and business value. You will collaborate with product teams to design platform solutions and promote DevOps practices within the Engineering Platform Team. The ideal candidate has over five years of experience and hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes and AWS services. This position offers competitive compensation and flexibility in work arrangements.