Senior Platform Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their engineering team in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a hands-on role with genuine autonomy over CI/CD pipelines, automated guardrails, and migration strategies. You'll work embedded within engineering teams, optimizing delivery across their infrastructure while serving as a key stakeholder in shaping and rolling out their new Kubernetes platform.

This isn't a ticket-pushing role—you'll have real impact on how engineering safely and rapidly ships value to production, driving the modernization of deployment and scaling practices.

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 Platform Development:

• Represent engineering as a key stakeholder in platform design, shaping self-service workflows, guardrails, and standards
• Contribute requirements for Kubernetes primitives (Gateway API, RBAC, admission controllers, resource policies)
• Standardize application-level configurations for ingress, RBAC, namespacing strategy, and secrets management
• Drive phased application migrations, partnering with 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 with metrics, logging, and alerting to ensure workload health visibility
• Create comprehensive developer self-service documentation and manifest templates

What We're Looking For

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to collaborate across technical teams and leadership
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible (roles, inventories, vault, 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—delivering iteratively with existing infrastructure while roadmapping toward ideal state
• Methodical, security-conscious approach

Nice-to-Have:

• Familiarity with Helm chart authoring and management
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Experience with secrets management tooling (HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator)
• Prior experience balancing greenfield work alongside BAU responsibilities

The Right Mindset:

• Comfortable being the go-to person for engineering teams during incidents, but pragmatic about prioritization
• Able to hold your own in conversations with software engineers, network engineers, and senior leadership
• Treat documentation as part of the job, not an afterthought—you write runbooks and create diagrams
• Have opinions about best practices but know when to choose the right tool versus the perfect tool
• Demonstrate initiative and autonomously drive outcomes rather than waiting for direction

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. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your application to our client on your behalf. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly—all communication should flow through our recruiting team to ensure a professional and coordinated process.

This position is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. Employment type and remote/hybrid arrangements will be discussed during the screening process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed with qualified candidates during the interview process.

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