At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the evolution of Kubernetes infrastructure and optimise delivery pipelines.
- Company: Join CreateFuture, an AI-native consulting partner with a people-first approach.
- Benefits: Enjoy 35 days leave, private medical insurance, and 40 hours of paid learning.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a supportive culture await you.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by building innovative digital products with top brands.
- Qualifications: Experience with Kubernetes, AWS, GitOps, and Terraform is essential.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
About CreateFuture
Working at CreateFuture CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first. We’re a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what’s not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.
Benefits:
- 35 days leave (including bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave.
- 40 hours of paid learning and development.
Join us on our journey. Let’s create tomorrow, together, today.
Job Overview: A hands‑on senior engineer embedded in the client’s platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes‑based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day‑to‑day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize‑based environment configuration.
- Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments.
- Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response.
- Maintain and extend infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices.
- Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications.
- Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python‑based services.
- Identify and address platform‑level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements.
- Support on call for the EKS platform.
Skills & Experience:
- Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations.
- GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize.
- AWS managed services, hands‑on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments.
- Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure‑as‑code across multiple environments.
- GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads.
- Application‑layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers.
- Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on‑call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis.
What we’ll offer you: We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You’ll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do. We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed. We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.
Eligibility: Candidates for this role must be eligible to live and work in the UK.
Senior Cloud Platform Engineer employer: CreateFuture
At CreateFuture, we pride ourselves on being an exceptional employer that champions meaningful work and personal growth. Our supportive culture fosters collaboration and innovation, allowing our team members to thrive in a flexible environment with generous benefits like 35 days of leave and extensive learning opportunities. Join us in shaping the future alongside industry leaders while enjoying the unique advantages of working in vibrant locations such as Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London, and Bulgaria.
