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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Kaluza Ltd.
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £56,000.0 - £84,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Distributed Systems, Monitoring of Systems, Reliability Engineering, Software Engineering, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Build Management, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Terraform
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=2d72e88fe478f59c

## About the Role

Ideally you'll have:

 * Strong experience designing, building, and operating production applications at scale.
 * Excellent technical leadership, communication, and collaboration skills with a passion for mentoring others.
 * Deep expertise with cloud platforms like AWS (preferred), Google Cloud, or Azure.
 * Hands-on experience architecting, managing, and maintaining production Kubernetes clusters.
 * A deep understanding of distributed systems and resiliency patterns.
 * Proven expertise with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps patterns, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

## Description

You'll play a pivotal role in evolving and elevating our internal developer platform to empower our software teams. Beyond day-to-day platform engineering, you'll take ownership of technical decisions, drive best practices across teams, eliminate complex infrastructure toil, reinforce enterprise security safeguards, and optimize cloud operations at scale.

 * Engineering Foundations: Design and build a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform that sets the standard for seamless software development and operations.
 * Automation & Tooling: Drive self-service tooling and abstractions to hide platform complexity from developers, drastically improving developer experience and team velocity.
 * Infrastructure as Code: Lead the use of Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane to automate provisioning and champion GitOps best practices across all cloud infrastructure.
 * Monitoring & Observability: Establish robust monitoring, logging, and tracing foundations in close collaboration with the wider Site Reliability Engineering function.
 * Security & Reliability: Embed automated security controls, ensure compliance, and participate in the out-of-hours on-call rota to troubleshoot and solve complex, systemic issues.
 * Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Mentor engineers in the team, foster strong relationships with internal stakeholders to coordinate technical upgrades, and hold service providers accountable.