Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & AI Infra (UK Remote)

Certinia; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Certinia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Veda AI, to join its Platform Engineering team. You will lead development across Helm charts, Terraform infrastructure, authentication layers and CI/CD tooling, enabling secure AI workloads on the platform and serving multiple application teams.

You will guide juniors, participate in reviews, and share on-call responsibilities for platform reliability, working with cross-functional peers and stakeholders to define technical direction and delivery

Qualifications

• Strong development background in a meaningful programming language; Go preferred.
• Solid experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based systems with RBAC, networking and observability.
• Experience with a major public cloud (AWS preferred) or GCP/Azure as appropriate.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform preferred) including module design and state management.
• Experience with CI/CD at scale, pipelines, release artefacts and quality gates.
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/HTTP, DNS, TLS, mTLS, service identity.

Responsibilities

• Lead the complete development cycle of platform changes: Helm charts, IaC, services, CI/CD jobs and tooling.
• Lead on best use of the team’s platform technologies.
• Estimate size/feasibility of solutions and break work into tasks.
• Diagnose platform issues reported by application teams or monitoring and resolve them.
• Design and write tests; review code and configuration produced by colleagues.
• Contribute to incident response and disaster-recovery processes.
• Act as a role model, demonstrating company values through behaviours.
• Engage with stakeholders to clarify requirements and provide technical input.
• Contribute to long-term platform direction through planning sessions and reviews.

Skills

Go

Other languages (Java/Scala/Rust/Kotin

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

CI/CD

Helm

Istio/Linkerd

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Certinia is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer, Veda AI, to join its Platform Engineering team. You will lead development across Helm charts, Terraform infrastructure, authentication layers and CI/CD tooling, enabling secure AI workloads on the platform and serving multiple application teams.

You will guide juniors, participate in reviews, and share on-call responsibilities for platform reliability, working with cross-functional peers and stakeholders to define technical direction and delivery