Platform Engineer - Contract - Hybrid in Canary Wharf - Inside IR35

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join on a hybrid contract based in Canary Wharf (3 days on-site). The role sits at the intersection of infrastructure and software development, embedding with client engineering teams to raise the engineering baseline: improving how platforms are built, how software reaches production, and how teams operate with greater reliability and confidence at scale., * Design and evolve cloud-native platforms, internal developer platforms, and shared infrastructure that accelerate delivery across engineering teams

• Build and operate CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment tooling that make software delivery faster, safer, and repeatable
• Stabilise unreliable infrastructure, reduce toil, address platform gaps, and resolve performance and reliability bottlenecks
• Apply a software engineering approach to infrastructure, treating it as code, establishing testing practices, and driving observability into every layer
• Communicate clearly through design notes, architecture records, and stakeholder conversations, making trade-offs explicit
• Help client teams develop the habits, tooling, and practices that let them move faster without sacrificing quality or control

• Battle-hardened production experience, ideally with large cloud deployments, with hands-on experience of at least one major provider (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go, Python, or Java), writing software to solve infrastructure problems
• Kubernetes in production, with strong containerisation and orchestration experience
• Everything-as-Code, immutable infrastructure, and automation experience, with Infrastructure-as-Code tooling such as Terraform, Pulumi, or Crossplane
• Strong understanding of distributed systems trade-offs and the Software and Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycles, with strong communication skills - desirable: Internal Developer Platforms, SRE, service mesh, and observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)