Senior Platform Engineer

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer at IG Group is a hands-on technical contributor responsible for building, evolving, and maintaining cloud platform infrastructure. This role involves mentoring junior engineers and ensuring the infrastructure is secure, scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cloud infrastructure engineering with hands-on experience designing and administering complex platforms across AWS, GCP, and Azure, including deep knowledge of networking (VPC, Direct Connect, Transit Gateways, BGP, OSPF) and IaaS/PaaS architectural patterns
• 2+ years with IaC tools (Terraform or Ansible) and hands-on experience with orchestration and automation platforms (AWX, Ansible Tower, Terragrunt), scripting in Python, Bash, or Go
• 2+ years designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, with strong knowledge of security best practices including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and compliance
• 2+ years of Kubernetes administration across on-premises and cloud environments (EKS preferred, AKS, GKE), with proficiency in networking, RBAC, pod security, service mesh (Istio), and Docker image management
• Experience implementing developer portals (Backstage), artifact repositories (JFrog Artifactory, Nexus), API gateways, and self-service platform engineering tools to support internal teams
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms (Honeycomb, Prometheus, Grafana), including defining alerting standards and ensuring infrastructure reliability at scale
• Strong grasp of microservices architecture, cloud networking protocols (Layer 2/3, MPLS), DNS, load balancing, and traffic management, with the ability to contribute to and implement technical direction
• Proficiency across version control systems (Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) with the ability to operate autonomously and contribute to engineering standards across teams

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable AWS cloud infrastructure, developing IaC solutions using Terraform and leading cloud technology evaluation and standardisation initiatives
• Build, optimise, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure deployment, establishing DevOps and DevSecOps best practices across the organisation
• Architect and manage Kubernetes environments (EKS, AKS, GKE) and implement platform engineering tools to deliver self-service capabilities via an IDP (e.g. Backstage)
• Define and enforce monitoring, alerting, and observability standards to ensure infrastructure reliability and performance
• Foster collaboration between development and operations teams, bridging gaps to drive a unified engineering culture
• Mentor junior engineers, share knowledge across the team, and write and maintain documentation to support continuous learning and engineering best practices

Skills

Relocation