Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Fidelis Partnership is seeking a Platform Engineer to join their Analytics Product Engineering team in London. This role involves designing, building, and operating platform capabilities for high-performance, distributed computing products, focusing on infrastructure automation, CI/CD, observability, and performance optimization. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to define and deliver the platform roadmap in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering supporting distributed, high performance compute systems, ideally with Microsoft HPC in a Windows Server environment.
• Strong experience with hybrid, bare metal and virtualized infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of networking, security and access control principles and components, including Microsoft Entra (Active Directory).
• Extensive applied experience of observability practices including logging, monitoring and alerting (e.g. SolarWinds).
• Practical experience of commissioning and maintaining Microsoft SQL Server installations.
• Experience designing, deploying and maintaining containerisation and orchestration solutions (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes) a significant plus.
• Experience of using Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep for definition and management of environments a significant plus.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Azure DevOps) a plus.
• Solid experience of provisioning and managing storage, backup/restore and Disaster Recovery solutions.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the platform engineering strategy and roadmap aligned to analytics product needs.
• Design and operate distributed runtime environments including compute orchestration and workload scheduling.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automated environment provisioning.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting distributed systems and shared components.
• Implement observability through logging, metrics and alerting, improving platform reliability and debuggability.
• Monitor and optimise system performance, throughput and resource utilisation.
• Ensure platform security, access control and compliance with internal standards.
• Own and maintain operational documentation, runbooks and support procedures to ensure continuity of service.
• Establish knowledge-sharing and cross-training practices to reduce single points of failure.
• Ensure key platform processes are documented, repeatable and transferable across the team.
• Support resilience through shared ownership of critical platform components, releases and incident response.
• Collaborate with engineering squads and stakeholders to drive adoption of platform capabilities and standards.

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