Senior Platform Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization in their search for a Senior Platform Engineer based in Bristol, England. This is a hands-on technical role with genuine autonomy—you'll be championing deployment architecture, optimizing CI/CD pipelines, and acting as the key engineering stakeholder in a strategic migration to Kubernetes. This isn't about rubber-stamping tickets; you'll be shaping how engineering teams safely and rapidly ship value to production.

You'll be embedded within engineering teams, maintaining day-to-day delivery across an on-premise estate while simultaneously helping to configure and roll out a modern Kubernetes platform. This role offers true ownership over automated guardrails, migration strategies, and the entire delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

Platform Stability & BAU:

• Utilize and contribute to Ansible-based deployment automation to facilitate seamless product feature releases
• Monitor application-level health within the cluster and collaborate on incident response
• Drive post-mortems for engineering-led deployments
• Maintain clear documentation, deployment runbooks, and developer self-service guides

Kubernetes Migration & Modernization:

• Represent Engineering as a key stakeholder in platform design, collaborating to shape self-service workflows, guardrails, and standards
• Contribute requirements for Kubernetes primitives including Gateway API, RBAC, admission controllers, and resource policies
• Standardize application-level configurations for ingress, RBAC, namespacing strategy, and secrets management
• Drive phased application migrations, partnering with engineering teams to containerize and migrate existing workloads
• Build robust CI/CD workflows for Kubernetes-based deployments using tools like Helm, Kustomize, or ArgoCD
• Implement application observability through metrics, logging, and alerting to ensure engineering teams have visibility into workload health
• Create comprehensive developer self-service documentation so engineers can onboard and deploy safely within established guardrails

What We're Looking For

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills—collaboration and clear communication are as critical as technical ability
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible: roles, inventories, vault, and idempotency
• Comfort with Docker and Docker Compose in production environments
• Understanding of networking fundamentals
• Strong scripting ability in Bash and Python
• Experience with GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD or Flux
• Experience with observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager, or equivalent
• Ability to think creatively within constraints and plan pragmatically—our stack is real-world, not greenfield-perfect
• A methodical, security-conscious approach

Nice-to-Have:

• Familiarity with Helm chart authoring and management
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, even in an on-premise context
• Experience with secrets management tooling like HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, or External Secrets Operator
• Prior experience balancing greenfield work alongside BAU responsibilities

The Kind of Person We're After:

• You're comfortable being the go-to person when something's on fire, but also know when to schedule work properly
• You can hold your own in conversations with software engineers, network engineers, and senior leadership—even when they all want different things
• You write things down—runbooks and diagrams are part of the job, not an afterthought
• You have opinions about how things should be done, but you're pragmatic about choosing the right tool versus the perfect tool
• You autonomously drive outcomes and demonstrate initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do next

We welcome applications from candidates who don't tick every box. If you have strong Ansible and Kubernetes experience with the right mindset, we'd love to hear from you.

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening to understand your experience and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your candidacy to our client for consideration. Throughout the process, we'll keep you informed and provide guidance. Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure a smooth, professional experience for everyone involved.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications.

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