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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** SF Partners
- **Location:** Gloucester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £75,000.0 - £90,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Cloud Platform System, Grafana, Kubernetes, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Devsecops
- **Published:** July 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2856203703-2

## About the Role

* Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
 * Terraform or Infrastructure as Code
 * CI/CD tooling
 * GitOps approaches such as ArgoCD or Flux
 * Prometheus, Grafana or OpenTelemetry
 * DevSecOps practises
 * Platform Engineering concepts
 * Site Reliability Engineering principles
 * FinOps and cloud cost optimisation

We would particularly like to hear from engineers with experience in:

 * Enterprise-scale cloud environments
 * Highly regulated industries
 * Financial services, telecoms, retail, defence or public sector environments
 * Cloud migration and modernisation programmes
 * Supporting large engineering communities

## Description

We are supporting one of the UK's largest Platform Engineering growth programmes, delivering secure, cloud-native platforms that underpin critical digital services used by millions every day.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled engineering community working across some of the UK s most complex and innovative cloud environments. You will support development teams to build, deploy and operate modern applications at enterprise scale.

You will remain hands-on with technology whilst influencing engineering standards, enhancing developer experience and evolving platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities

 * Build and operate secure AWS cloud environments and landing zones.
 * Develop modern Kubernetes platforms using EKS and cloud-native tooling.
 * Create reusable Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
 * Support Internal Developer Platforms and self-service engineering capabilities.
 * Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and automation.
 * Implement observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
 * Support reliability engineering initiatives including SLOs, SLIs and incident response improvements.
 * Collaborate with architects, security teams and software engineers to resolve complex technical challenges.
 * Contribute to engineering standards, best practises and platform evolution.


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