Staff Platform Engineer

Burns Sheehan; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology-focused company in London is seeking a pragmatic Staff Platform Engineer to build a reliable developer platform. The ideal candidate will have expertise in cloud infrastructure and containers, with a strong focus on automation principles. You'll design CI/CD pipelines and apply SRE practices in a dynamic environment. This role offers a competitive day rate of £600 - £800, and is an opportunity to contribute to an AI-powered project delivery platform.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider.
• Deep expertise with Docker for containerization.
• Experience using Terraform or Ansible for automation.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a developer platform focused on reliability.
• Implement and manage cloud infrastructure and security.
• Design CI/CD pipelines and observability systems.

Skills

Cloud Infrastructure

Automation

CI/CD

Containerization

Tools

AWS

Docker

Terraform

Job description

Staff Platform Engineer - London - £600 - £800/day (OUTSIDE IR35)

Are you a pragmatic and automation-focused Staff Platform Engineer with a passion for building reliable, scalable systems? Do you have strong communication skills and a desire to work closely with product teams?

A company that builds an AI-powered project delivery platform is seeking a skilled Staff Platform Engineer to join their team. This organization helps businesses streamline the process from ideation to completion and is looking for someone to build a scalable and reliable foundation for their development teams.

Staff Platform Engineer Core Responsibilities

• Developer Platform: Build and maintain a robust developer platform that prioritizes reliability and velocity.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Implement and manage cloud infrastructure, networking, and security baselines.
• Automation: Create automated provisioning and management of environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• CI/ CD & Observability: Design and implement CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, and observability systems (logging, metrics, traces).
• SRE Practices: Apply SRE principles, including incident response, reliability key performance indicators (KPIs), and capacity planning.

Staff Platform Engineer Must-Have Experience

• Cloud Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud provider, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
• Containers & Orchestration: Deep expertise with containers, with Docker being a must.
• IaC: Proven experience using tools like Terraform or Ansible for environment provisioning and automation.
• CI/CD: Strong background in building and managing continuous integration and continuous delivery systems.

Staff Platform Engineer Nice-to-Have

• HashiCorp Stack: Experience with the HashiCorp suite, including Nomad, secrets management, and policy-as-code.
• Data/ML Teams: Experience supporting data, machine learning, and service teams.

If you're a Platform Engineer ready to drive security transformation at an innovative project delivery platform, please apply!

Staff Platform Engineer - London - £600 - £800/day (OUTSIDE IR35)

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.