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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Kitt - **Location:** London, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £65,000.0 - £80,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, C Sharp (Programming Language), Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, Software Debugging, DevOps, Identity and Access Management, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Key Management, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, TypeScript, Rust (Programming Language), Datadog, Circleci, Delivery Pipeline, Kubernetes Helm Charts, Backend, Kubernetes, Graphql, Terraform, Docker, Microservices - **Published:** June 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cc3569b8d3ff092b ## About the Role Do you have experience in gRPC?, * DevOps & infrastructure experience: Solid hands-on experience running infrastructure and deployment pipelines in production - this is the core of the role * AWS: Strong, practical AWS experience is a must (EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, networking, secrets). GCP experience is a nice-to-have given our polycloud setup * Infrastructure as code: Comfortable with Terraform (or similar) and treating infrastructure as version-controlled, reviewable code * Kubernetes & containers: Real experience with Kubernetes and Docker - deploying, debugging and operating containerised workloads * Backend coding: You can read and write backend code and genuinely enjoy doing so. Go experience is ideal, but if you've worked in another statically-typed language (TypeScript, Java, C#, Rust, etc.) alongside strong DevOps experience, we'd love to talk - we'll help you get up to speed on Go * Security mindset: You think about security as you build - secrets, access, least privilege - and are keen to grow your SecOps skills * Self-directed & ambitious: You take ownership, work independently, and are eager to get stuck in. You spot what needs doing and drive it, rather than waiting for direction * Pragmatism: You make sensible trade-offs between speed, cost, reliability and maintainability, and care about the impact your work has on other engineers * Scale-up energy: Ambitious and excited to work in a friendly scale-up environment with the mission to transform workspaces globally ## Description * Own the infrastructure: Take ownership of our AWS-based infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), our EKS Kubernetes clusters, and the supporting services that keep ~40 microservices running across dev, staging and production * Run and improve CI/CD: Maintain and evolve our CircleCI pipelines and custom Kitt CLI tooling, making builds and deployments faster, safer and easier for the whole team * DevOps & developer experience: Improve how engineers ship - from Helm charts and Skaffold-based dev workflows to local environments - treating internal tooling as a product * SecOps: Help keep us secure and compliant - secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager + External Secrets), IAM and access control, threat detection and vulnerability findings (GuardDuty, Inspector), and supporting our ISO 27001 work * Observability & reliability: Build and tune monitoring, dashboards and alerting (Datadog) so we catch issues early and understand our systems in production * Backend development: Dig into our Go microservices - gRPC, GraphQL gateway, MySQL/Postgres/Redis - to fix issues, add features and improve the services your infrastructure runs * Cost & scalability: Keep an eye on cloud spend and scaling (Karpenter autoscaling, right-sizing) and make pragmatic calls that balance cost, performance and reliability ## Related Videos - [Reducing LLM Calls with Vector Search Patterns - Raphael De Lio (Redis)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1714-reducing-llm-calls-with-vector-search-patterns-raphael-de-lio-redis) - [MySQL Protocol Features You Should Be Aware Of](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100267-mysql-protocol-features-you-should-be-aware-of) - [Docker Compose: Rediscovered](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1978-docker-compose-rediscovered) - [Retooling and refactoring - an investment in people.](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/371-retooling-and-refactoring-an-investment-in-people) - [Accelerating Authentication Architecture: Taking Passwordless to the Next Level](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/733-accelerating-authentication-architecture-taking-passwordless-to-the-next-level) - [Navigating the Corporate Jungle: Life as a Developer in a large Company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/621-navigating-the-corporate-jungle-life-as-a-developer-in-a-large-company) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe)