Senior Platform Engineer

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential SaaS organization in their search for a Senior Platform Engineer to champion deployment architecture and drive platform maturity. This is a hands-on role with real impact—you'll have true autonomy over CI/CD pipelines, automated guardrails, and migration strategies, shaping how engineering teams safely and rapidly ship value to production.

You'll be embedded within engineering teams, optimizing delivery across the existing on-premise estate while acting as the key engineering stakeholder to help shape, configure, and roll out a new Kubernetes platform that modernizes how workloads are deployed and scaled.

Responsibilities

BAU & Platform Stability:

• 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, collaborating to shape engineering 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 to Kubernetes
• Build robust deployment pipelines with CI/CD workflows using Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or similar tools
• Implement application observability with metrics, logging, and alerting to ensure workload health visibility
• Create comprehensive developer self-service documentation including runbooks, manifest templates, and best practices

What We're Looking For

Must-Have Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Ansible (roles, inventories, vault, idempotency)
• Comfortable 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 while roadmapping towards the 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 when engineering teams need support, while knowing when to schedule non-urgent work properly
• Can communicate effectively with software engineers, network engineers, and senior leadership
• Treat documentation as part of the job—runbooks and diagrams are second nature
• Pragmatic with strong opinions: know when to pick the right tool versus the perfect tool
• Autonomously drive outcomes with initiative rather than waiting for direction

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with exceptional organizations to connect them with outstanding candidates. Here's our process:

• Apply directly through Get A Job.ai with your current CV
• A dedicated recruiter will screen your application and conduct an initial conversation
• If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration
• We'll guide you through each stage of the interview process
• Please do not contact the client directly—all communication should flow through Get A Job.ai

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruitment team.

Additional Benefits (provided by our client):

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private medical and dental insurance
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Life assurance and wellness programs

Equal Opportunity

Get A Job.ai is committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and circumstances, regardless of race, ethnic identity, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender, gender identity, physical abilities, or any other dimension of diversity.