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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Harnham
- **Location:** London, UK (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £70,000.0 - £100,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Windows, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Linux, Identity and Access Management, Load Balancing, Cloud Platform System, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Kubernetes, Hashicorp, Functional Programming, Api Gateway, Terraform, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2815089805-platform-engineer

## About the Role

* AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, Lambda, API Gateways). Open to GCP/Azure with extensive Kubernetes experience.
 * Terraform - hands-on, not just running modules.
 * Strong Kubernetes exposure in production environments.
 * Confidence owning infrastructure and driving improvements.
 * Financial services experience is a plus.

## Description

Platform Engineer - Windows or Linux (Contract, Outside IR35)

London, United Kingdom | Salary: £70,000 - £100,000 per year | Contract

Overview

This is a chance to join a small, high-impact Cloud Infrastructure team inside a fast-growing, tech-first financial services organisation. Your work will run, scale and improve the cloud platforms powering real, customer-facing products used by hundreds of thousands of people daily.

Responsibilities

 * AWS-based environments supporting mission-critical, customer-facing applications
 * Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
 * Highly available, scalable platforms used for current accounts and investment products
 * Secrets and access management (Vault exposure a bonus)

Required Skills

 * AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, Load Balancers, Lambda, API Gateways). Open to GCP/Azure with extensive Kubernetes experience.
 * Terraform - hands-on, not just running modules.
 * Strong Kubernetes exposure in production environments.
 * Confidence owning infrastructure and driving improvements.
 * Financial services experience is a plus.

Nice to Have

 * HashiCorp Vault

Benefits

 * Work abroad up to 120 days per year
 * Learn-centric, cloud-native environment - no legacy systems
 * Small team - real influence and ownership
 * Strong focus on learning, wellbeing and flexibility
 * Fast, simple two-stage interview process (fully remote)
 * Behavioural interview (45 min - Zoom)
 * Technical + values interview (80 min - Zoom)

Seniority Level

Mid-Senior level

Employment Type

Full-time (Contract)


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