Platform Engineer | Contract | London

We're recruiting an experienced Platform Engineer for a contract role in a platform team. You'll build and run the internal infrastructure and tooling that product engineering teams use to ship software safely and quickly, improving reliability, security, cost efficiency and developer experience.

Location: London, UK

Day rate: £550–£650 per day (IR35 status to be confirmed)

Contract: Initial 6–12 months, likely extension

What you'll do:

• Design, build and maintain cloud infrastructure using infrastructure as code (Terraform, Pulumi or equivalent)
• Run and improve Kubernetes platforms, covering upgrades, scaling, networking and security
• Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Flux)
• Develop internal developer platform capabilities and golden paths for self-service infrastructure
• Implement observability across monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting
• Drive reliability through SLOs, incident response and post-incident reviews
• Embed security into the platform, including secrets management, IAM and policy-as-code
• Optimise cloud cost and resource usage

What you'll bring:

• 4–6 years' experience in platform, DevOps, SRE or infrastructure engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, Azure or GCP and Terraform
• Production experience running Kubernetes and containerised workloads
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Solid scripting or programming skills in Python, Go or Bash
• Right to work in the UK

Desirable: Backstage or other internal developer platforms, service mesh, Crossplane, OPA/Kyverno, regulated environments (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI-DSS), CKA/CKAD or professional-level cloud certifications.