Platform Engineer

💼 Senior/Lead Platform Engineer

👔 Consultancy/Govt

📍 Newcastle, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool

💵 £70-110k

⚠️SC Eligibility Required

Do you want to work on one of the biggest K8s projects in Europe - one running over 400K Pods (and 140k Nodes) at any one time?

Do you want to get AWS & CKA certified on company time whilst also using these tools day in day out in production environments?

I am partnered with one of the world’s top tech consultancies who are spearheading a multi-year DevOps transformation at a top Govt department.

The project aims to completely revolutionise the way the UK Government operates online and will create numerous public benefits including cutting waiting times, vastly improved CX and cost savings in the millions of pounds.

They are now looking for Senior and Lead Platform Engineers to join their team and help with the ongoing support, optimisation and scaling of this project. Their ideal candidate would be an expert within:

• Cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Kubernetes (Helm, Kops, ServiceMesh, Istio)
• IaC (Terraform, Ansible)
• CI/CD (GitOps, Github Actions, Jenkins)
• Observability (OTel, Dynatrace, Grafana)
• Linux (RedHat, Ubuntu, Debian)

What’s in it for you?

• Certification Scheme (AWS, CKA, Hashicorp)
• Uncapped Progressions (Just hit the criteria and you will continually climb the ranks)
• 10% combined pension
• Private Medical/Dental
• Flexi Benefits (Life Assurance, GIP, Dental etc.)
• Travel expenses to client site
• Remote First Working (only onsite at client request)

If you’re passionate about working with K8s at scale and keen to work on one of the country’s most high-profile digital transformations then please apply right away!