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Platform Engineer
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Portsmouth, Hampshire County, PO5, England, UK
Listed on 2026-10-16
Listing for:
Source Group International
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-10-16
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Cybersecurity, Systems Engineer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview We are seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure, resilient platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver reliably in a regulated Financial Services environment. You will collaborate with engineering, security and operations to provide self-service infrastructure, standardised tooling and automation across the software delivery lifecycle.
Location & Salary
Location:
United Kingdom (Britain / UK) (hybrid/remote options may be available)
Salary: 110,000
Key Responsibilities Build and maintain cloud-native platform services (compute, networking, storage, identity) with strong reliability and security controls.
Develop Infrastructure as Code and reusable modules; manage environments across development, test and production.
Operate Kubernetes-based platforms and associated tooling (ingress, service mesh, secrets, policy).Implement and improve CI/CD pipelines, artefact management and release automation.
Embed observability: logging, metrics, tracing, alerting and incident response practices.
Harden platforms to meet regulatory expectations (auditability, access control, change management, data protection).Partner with development teams to enable golden paths, templates and documentation.
Required Skills & Experience Strong experience as a Platform/Dev Ops/SRE engineer within complex or regulated environments (Financial Services preferred).Proficiency with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure or GCP) and core services (VPC/VNet, IAM, KMS, load balancing).Hands-on Kubernetes experience (build, upgrade, secure and troubleshoot clusters).Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Cloud Formation/Bicep) and configuration management.
Solid Linux administration and networking fundamentals (DNS, TLS, routing, firewalls).Scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, Bash or similar) to automate workflows.
Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops) and container registries.
Security-first mindset: secrets management, vulnerability management, least privilege, supply chain controls.
Observability tooling experience (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Open Search, Splunk) and on-call/incident management.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence standards across teams.
Desirable Experience with policy-as-code (OPA/Gatekeeper), service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and SSO/identity integration.
Knowledge of regulatory frameworks and controls (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS) and audit evidence collection.
Experience running high-availability platforms and performing capacity planning and cost optimisation.
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