At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the design and automation of a cutting-edge Azure and Kubernetes platform.
- Company: Join a prestigious wealth management firm backed by a renowned private banking group.
- Benefits: Competitive salary up to £100,000, hybrid work model, and career growth opportunities.
- Other info: Collaborative culture with a focus on innovation and technical excellence.
- Why this job: Make a significant impact in a high-stakes environment with advanced technology.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in platform engineering, Azure, and infrastructure as code.
The predicted salary is between 81000 - 99000 £ per year.
We are partnering with one of Europe’s most prestigious wealth managers. Backed by a globally renowned private banking group with deep heritage and stability, our client manages several billion in assets across the UK. As part of a major technology modernisation push, they are appointing a Senior Platform Engineer to drive the technical design, evolution, and automation of their enterprise Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes platform ecosystem. This is a senior, high-impact mandate offering significant technical ownership over infrastructure-as-code, GitOps-driven delivery, and modern platform engineering standards within a highly regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Leadership & Roadmap Execution: Serve as a hands-on technical lead within the Platform & Infrastructure practice, driving the execution of the firm’s enterprise cloud and platform roadmap.
- Cloud & Platform Architecture: Design, provision, and maintain a resilient, secure, and scalable Azure cloud estate spanning core compute, software-defined networking, storage, identity, and governance guardrails.
- Delivery Automation & GitOps: Architect and optimise enterprise CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure delivery using GitLab, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, and GitOps-aligned release patterns.
- Engineering Standards & Guardrails: Establish reusable platform components, reference architectures, and golden paths to accelerate application delivery while enforcing strict regulatory, security, and compliance baselines.
- Cross-Functional Modernisation: Partner closely with solutions architects, application engineering teams, and Group infrastructure counterparts to lead cloud adoption, microservice migration, and operational readiness.
- Observability & Operational Resilience: Drive end-to-end telemetry and observability initiatives across the platform estate, utilising centralised logging and metrics to ensure high availability and performance.
- Documentation & Knowledge Sharing: Produce production-grade technical artifacts, architectural diagrams, runbooks, and implementation blueprints to continuously raise internal engineering standards.
Candidate Profile
- Senior Platform Expertise: Demonstrated track record in a Senior Platform, Infrastructure, or Cloud Engineering role, with prior experience in financial services or similarly regulated enterprise settings strongly preferred.
- Azure Foundation: Deep practical mastery of Microsoft Azure architecture, covering core infrastructure services, IAM/Entra ID, network security policies, landing zones, and cloud governance frameworks.
- Infrastructure as Code: Advanced Terraform capabilities, with proven ability to build clean, modular, and reusable IaC templates to manage cloud and hybrid infrastructure.
- Containers & Orchestration: Solid hands-on proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm; sound understanding of declarative configuration management and automated environment promotion.
- CI/CD & Pipeline Design: Production experience designing, hardening, and automating continuous integration and delivery pipelines using GitLab CI or comparable platforms.
- Automation & Scripting: Strong shell automation skills (PowerShell, Bash) alongside practical coding capability in a modern language such as Python or Go, with expert use of YAML.
- Observability Tooling: Experience implementing monitoring, tracing, and logging stacks using Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent enterprise tools.
- Communication & Collaboration: Exceptional communication skills with the ability to articulate technical risk, architecture decisions, and operational standards to both technical peers and cross-functional leadership.
Senior Platform Engineer in London employer: Third Nexus Group Limited
As a Senior Solutions Engineer at our Oxford office, you will be part of a dynamic Engineering Team that values innovation and collaboration. We offer competitive salaries, performance bonuses, and a supportive work culture that prioritises employee growth through continuous learning and development opportunities. Our commitment to providing the best tools and technology ensures that you can excel in your role while contributing to meaningful projects that enhance our core services.
