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

- **Company:** Hamilton Barnes
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Salary:** £208,000
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Encodings, Distributed Systems, Python (Programming Language), Prometheus, Software Engineering, Pulumi, Cloud Platform System, Istio, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform
- **Published:** November 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/gb/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-6A991E775D519EA633/

## About the Role

* 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)

## Description

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