Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

London (Hybrid - 1 day per week onsite)

Perm

Up to £100,000pa

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.