Platform Engineer (Greater London)

Platform Engineer (Go / AWS / Kubernetes)

Location: Central London (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite)

Job type: Long Term contract (inside IR35)

Rate: £300 – £320 per day (inside IR35)

Contract: Inside IR35

Industry: Financial Services

Introduction:

My client is urgently seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join a global Programme on a long-term contract assignment.

The successful Platform Engineer will join the team to help shape secure, scalable, and flexible public cloud infrastructure.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• Design reference architectures & apps across cloud providers (e.g., web, batch, message-driven)
• Build Terraform modules/providers in Go
• Automate infrastructure provisioning & teardown (in minutes)
• Create ephemeral testing environments
• Drive cost transparency for teams
• Mentor engineers & advocate for developer experience

Skills & Experience:

• 6–9 years’ experience in software/cloud engineering
• Expertise in Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Git
• Deep DevOps knowledge (CI/CD, cloud infra)
• Strong testing and documentation skills
• Collaborative mindset, agile experience (Scrum)

Tech Stack:

Go | Java | React | GitHub Actions | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform (Enterprise) | Sentinel | OPA