Platform Engineer

LocationLondon, England, United Kingdom# Platform Engineer at N Consulting LtdLocationLondon, England, United KingdomSalary£75 - £80 /yearJob TypeFull-timeDate PostedFebruary 18th, 2026Apply Now**Role:** Platform Engineer**Experience:** 10years**Location:** London**Work mode:** HybridBuild and run an internal platform that makes delivery safer and faster in a regulated bank: paved roads, self-service, and guardrails by default. You’ll own platform capabilities across Kubernetes, GitOps, developer experience, and “AI-assisted operations” that proposes changes via PRs (human-in-the-loop).**Expected Outcomes*** A secure, repeatable platform blueprint deployable across clouds (or on-prem Kubernetes where needed).* Golden paths (templates + pipelines + policies) that teams adopt voluntarily because it removes toil.* Measurable improvement in deployment reliability, lead time, and audit evidence quality.* AI-assisted workflows that detect issues (red pipelines/alerts) and open PRs with recommended fixes—reviewable, traceable, and policy-gated.**Key responsibilities*** Design and implement a cloud-agnostic Kubernetes platform foundation (cluster add-ons, ingress, networking, secrets, config, tenancy).* Build and operate GitOps workflows using ArgoCD (environments, promotion, drift detection, rollback patterns).* Provide self-service developer experience via an Internal Developer Portal (Backstage or Atlassian Compass) including: + Service catalog + ownership + documentation + Golden-path scaffolding (service templates) + Operational visibility (dashboards/runbooks/alerts links)* Establish platform security controls aligned to banking needs: + Policy-as-code, least privilege, secrets management, audit logs, provenance/traceability.* Partner with architects and delivery teams to align platform boundaries with **DDD** (domain segregation, ownership boundaries, cross-domain integration patterns).* Enable the AI capability in a controlled way: + Integrate alerting/pipeline signals → generate PRs with proposed changes + Enforce approvals, testing gates, and traceable rationale (e.g., link PR to incident/ticket and evidence)**Required experience / must-haves*** Strong hands-on engineering background building platforms on **Kubernetes** in production.* **GitOps** with **ArgoCD** (multi-env, multi-team setups; drift, rollback, promotion strategies).* Infrastructure provisioning with **Terraform / OpenTofu** or **Pulumi** (modules/components, state management, secure patterns).* Strong Git-based workflows; familiarity with **GitHub** or **Bitbucket** and their permission/policy models.* Experience designing for regulated environments: audit trails, change control, separation of duties, evidence capture.* Clear documentation skills and the ability to work client-facing (workshops, trade-offs, “why this design”).**Nice-to-haves*** Backstage plugin development and/or Compass integration patterns.* Supply-chain security (SBOMs, signing, provenance), container image hardening.* Multi-cloud networking patterns; experience with ECR/ACR/Docker Hub governance.* Experience integrating “AIOps”/LLM-assisted workflows with guardrails (human approval, scoped permissions, rollback). #J-18808-Ljbffr