Senior Platform Engineer – Hybrid (AWS/Kubernetes)

Kaluza; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 84,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension Scheme

Discretionary Bonus

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Furthr climate app access

Mortgage & Eye tests

Perks at Work discounts

Flex Fund 5%

26 days holiday

Flexible Bank Holidays

Progressive Leave Policy

Learning Budget

Home Office Budget

And more

Job summary

Kaluza: Platform Engineer (Senior) role in London or Bristol with hybrid work, focusing on evolving our internal developer platform. You will influence technical decisions, drive best practices, and reduce platform toil while ensuring security and scalable cloud operations.

Ideal candidates have senior leadership experience, strong Kubernetes, and extensive CI/CD/GitOps expertise to enable software teams across our energy intelligence platform.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, building, and operating production applications at scale.
• Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with a passion for mentoring others.
• Deep expertise with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters.
• A deep understanding of distributed systems and resiliency patterns.
• Proven expertise with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Foundations: Design and build a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform that sets the standard for seamless software development and operations.
• Automation & Tooling: Drive self-service tooling and abstractions to hide platform complexity from developers, drastically improving developer experience and team velocity.
• Infrastructure as Code: Lead the use of Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to automate provisioning and champion GitOps best practices across all cloud infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring, logging, and tracing foundations in close collaboration with the wider Site Reliability Engineering function.
• Security & Reliability: Embed automated security controls, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and solve complex, systemic issues.
• Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor engineers in the team, foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders to coordinate technical upgrades, and hold service providers accountable.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Collaboration

Distributed systems

Security practices

Cloud strategy

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

Helm

Crossplane

GitOps

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Monitoring & Observability

Job description

Kaluza: Platform Engineer (Senior) role in London or Bristol with hybrid work, focusing on evolving our internal developer platform. You will influence technical decisions, drive best practices, and reduce platform toil while ensuring security and scalable cloud operations.

Ideal candidates have senior leadership experience, strong Kubernetes, and extensive CI/CD/GitOps expertise to enable software teams across our energy intelligence platform.