Platform Engineer - Consultancy

Hybrid in the UK·Added today (last checked 13 Nov)

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Hamilton Barnes

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Our summary

Salary: £600 a day
Work mode: Hybrid, the UK
Contract: Contract role, inside IR35

Skills

Nice to have

Requirements

What we're looking for

Battle-hardened production experience, ideally with large cloud deployments, with hands-on experience of at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, or Java), writing software to solve infrastructure problems
Kubernetes in production, with strong containerisation and orchestration experience
Everything-as-Code, immutable infrastructure, and automation experience, with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs and the Software and Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycles, with strong communication skills - desirable: Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, service mesh, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

£600 per day Inside IR35

The role

Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity?

Join a vibrant platform engineering, software delivery, and cloud strategy consultancy dedicated to accelerating product delivery and elevating developer experience. By building internal developer platforms, paved paths, and modern engineering workflows, the organization empowers enterprise clients to ship software faster and operate with greater reliability at scale.

The company is seeking a Platform Engineer to join on a hybrid contract basis in Canary Wharf, London. Sitting at the intersection of infrastructure and software development, the successful candidate will embed directly with client engineering teams to raise the technical baseline-improving how cloud platforms are architected, how software reaches production, and how engineering teams operate with confidence.

If you would like to learn more about this opportunity, feel free to reach out and apply today!

What you'll do

Design and evolve cloud-native platforms, internal developer platforms, and shared infrastructure that accelerate delivery across engineering teams
Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling that make software delivery faster, safer, and repeatable
Stabilise unreliable infrastructure, reduce toil, address platform gaps, and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
Apply a software engineering approach to infrastructure, treating it as code, establishing testing practices, and driving observability into every layer
Communicate clearly through design notes, architecture records, and stakeholder conversations, making trade-offs explicit
Help client teams develop the habits, tooling, and practices that let them move faster without sacrificing quality or control