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Platform Engineer

Kitt · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United Kingdom65,000-80,000 GBP/yearlyRemote
Remuneration
65,000-80,000 GBP/yearly
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified

Job summary

Kitt is seeking a Platform Engineer to own and evolve their infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and security posture. This role involves significant work with cloud and DevOps stacks, as well as hands-on experience with Go backend services. The ideal candidate will treat developer experience and reliability as products, serving internal teams as customers.

Benefits

Stock option schemeHybrid working28 days holiday a year plus Bank HolidaysParental leavePregnancy loss support leaveRegular socialsOctopus MoneyCoachWorkplace Nursery BenefitCycle to Work schemeSeason Ticket LoansWellHubDr Care Anywhere

Qualifications

  • Solid hands-on experience running infrastructure and deployment pipelines in production.
  • Strong practical AWS experience (EC2, EKS/Kubernetes, IAM, networking, secrets); GCP experience is a plus.
  • Comfortable with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools.
  • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker for deploying, debugging, and operating containerized workloads.
  • Ability to read and write backend code; Go experience is ideal, but other statically-typed languages (TypeScript, Java, C#, Rust) with strong DevOps experience are considered.
  • Security mindset, considering secrets, access, and least privilege, with a desire to grow SecOps skills.
  • Self-directed, ambitious, takes ownership, works independently, and drives initiatives.
  • Pragmatic approach to trade-offs between speed, cost, reliability, and maintainability.
  • Ambitious and excited to work in a friendly scale-up environment.

Responsibilities

  • Own AWS-based infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and EKS Kubernetes clusters, ensuring microservice operation across environments.
  • Maintain and evolve CircleCI pipelines and custom Kitt CLI tooling for faster, safer, and easier builds and deployments.
  • Improve engineer shipping processes, including Helm charts, Skaffold-based dev workflows, and local environments, treating internal tooling as a product.
  • Ensure security and compliance through secrets management (AWS Secrets Manager, External Secrets), IAM, access control, threat detection (GuardDuty, Inspector), and ISO 27001 support.
  • Build and tune monitoring, dashboards, and alerting (Datadog) for early issue detection and system understanding in production.
  • Develop backend Go microservices (gRPC, GraphQL gateway, MySQL/Postgres/Redis) to fix issues, add features, and improve services.
  • Monitor cloud spend and scaling (Karpenter autoscaling, right-sizing), balancing cost, performance, and reliability.

Skills

AWSCircleCIC#DatadogDockerEKSGCPGoGraphQLHelmIAMJavaKubernetesMySQLPostgreSQLRedisRustSecrets ManagerSkaffoldTerraformTypeScript

Certifications

ISO 27001

Languages

Go

Relocation

No
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