We are working with a leading financial services organisation undergoing a major cloud-native transformation programme, centred around a large-scale Kubernetes and microservices adoption initiative.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you will help design, build, and stabilise the core platform layer that underpins mission-critical financial systems.

You will be joining a high-performing engineering environment focused on scalable, resilient, and production-grade cloud infrastructure.

• Building and scaling Kubernetes-based infrastructure (EKS / AKS / GKE equivalent environments)
• Supporting a large-scale microservices migration from legacy systems
• Designing and implementing cloud-native platform capabilities (CI/CD, observability, automation)
• Developing and improving Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• Enhancing system reliability, resilience, and deployment patterns
• Working closely with engineering teams to enable self-service platform capabilities

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Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Kubernetes cluster architecture in a production environment
• Support application teams transitioning to microservices-based architecture
• Build and maintain scalable deployment pipelines (CI/CD)
• Implement observability standards (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Contribute to reliability engineering and incident response processes
• Ensure platform security, governance, and compliance requirements are met

• Extensive experience with Kubernetes in production environments
• Strong background in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP)
• Proven experience working in microservices architectures
• Solid understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience building or supporting CI/CD pipelines at scale
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.)
• Experience working in high-availability, production-critical environments

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Nice to Have‍

• Financial services or regulated environment experience
• Exposure to large-scale migration or transformation programmes
• SRE / DevOps mindset with on-call experience
• Understanding of distributed systems design principles

• Large-scale cloud transformation programme
• Engineering-led organisation with strong technical ownership
• Complex, high-impact systems supporting real-time operations
• Opportunity to shape foundational platform architecture