Senior Platform Engineer (DV Cleared) in London

Join Kainos and Shape the Future. At Kainos, we’re problem solvers, innovators, and collaborators - driven by a shared mission to create real impact. Whether we’re transforming digital services for millions, delivering cutting-edge Workday solutions, or pushing the boundaries of technology, we do it together.

We believe in a people-first culture, where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions truly make a difference. Here, you’ll be part of a diverse, ambitious team that celebrates creativity and collaboration.

Working within our Defence and National Security accounts, you will be working on some of the most challenging and critically important projects across various cloud technologies.

Main Purpose of the Role & Responsibilities:

• As a Senior Platform Engineer (Senior Associate) in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for leading the design of significant components of a modern digital service platform including its automation, build, deployment, and support.
• You’ll work alongside colleagues in engineering, testing, consulting, product management, and security capabilities to build, test, and deploy software of the highest quality.
• You’ll ensure the latest technologies are employed appropriately to extract maximum user and business benefit, ensuring alignment to industry standards and best practices.
• You’ll support your colleagues and facilitate an inclusive DevOps culture in all that you do.
• As a respected voice within your team and to our customers, you’ll drive conversations and decisions to ensure services are scalable, secure, reliable, and performant.
• You’ll make sure the service is available, secure, and performant as you strive to continuously improve it.
• You’ll embody the Kainos values and be the person people look up to, proactively coaching and mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Through exposure to technology, you may develop specialisms and choose to pivot your career in a certain direction.

Minimum (Essential) Requirements:

• A proven ability of strong team skills, including working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate issues to other technical people, and sometimes to non-technical people.
• Significant expertise in the use of multiple configuration management, infrastructure provisioning, and automation tools.
• Fluency in at least one of the following: Powershell, Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.
• Demonstrable experience in designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, and supporting significant components within a modern digital service platform in production environments.
• Producing designs that are scalable, resilient, efficient, secure, cost-effective, and minimise lock-in.
• Contributing to technical decisions and direction in a collaborative team environment.
• Implementing modern Continuous Delivery processes for releasing software to production.
• Applying industry best practices and patterns across infrastructure and application components.
• Using public cloud platform(s) to solve business problems (AWS or Azure).
• Debugging complex problems across multiple servers, services, and tools.

Desirable:

• Third level – or equivalent - qualification in a related discipline.
• Obtained mid-level certification with a public cloud provider (AWS/Azure).
• Active participation in knowledge sharing activities.
• Experience of cloud-native SaaS and PaaS technologies.
• Experience in managing, mentoring, and coaching junior members of staff.

Embracing our differences: At Kainos, we believe in the power of diversity, equity, and inclusion. We are committed to building a team that is as diverse as the world we live in, where everyone is valued, respected, and given an equal chance to thrive. We actively seek out talented people from all backgrounds, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability, or any other characteristic that makes them who they are.

We also believe every candidate deserves a level playing field. Our friendly talent acquisition team is here to support you every step of the way, so if you require any accommodations or adjustments, we encourage you to reach out.