Senior Platform Engineer

Our customer is a global technology company providing intelligent solutions for customer communications, business processes and digital transformation. Operating internationally, the company supports organisations across multiple industries through enterprise software, automation, integrations and connected business solutions.

The team is looking for a Contract Platform Engineer to build, operate and evolve a cloud-native platform supporting digital products and high-scale content and consumer applications.

The role focuses on Kubernetes, GitOps, cloud infrastructure, deployment automation, observability and platform reliability, with a strong emphasis on improving developer experience and standardising delivery practices.

You will work closely with application engineering, DevOps, product and infrastructure teams to support workload migration and modernization across AWS and OCI/OKE environments.

This is a hands-on contract role covering platform delivery, migration support, operational reliability and developer enablement.

You will work in a cross-functional engineering environment alongside senior engineers, technical architects, product teams and business stakeholders.

• Interview process that respects people and their time
• Professional and open IT community
• Internal meet-ups and resources for knowledge sharing
• Time for recovery and relaxation
• Bright online and offline events
• Opportunity to become part of our internal volunteer community

• Kubernetes & Platform Operations: Operate and improve Kubernetes platforms across EKS, OKE and related cloud environments, including troubleshooting workloads, networking, ingress, DNS, secrets and resource health.
• GitOps & Deployment: Build and maintain Argo CD-based deployment workflows, ApplicationSets, App-of-Apps patterns, environment-specific configurations and production sync strategies. Work with Helm, Kustomize, OCI charts and Git-based delivery workflows.
• Cloud Migration & Infrastructure: Support the modernization and migration of workloads between AWS and OCI/OKE, covering infrastructure, networking, secrets, ingress, observability and deployment changes. Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation.
• Developer Experience: Create reusable platform patterns, templates, tooling, documentation and runbooks that help application teams deploy and operate services more efficiently.
• Reliability & Observability: Improve monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting and operational visibility across shared platforms and application workloads.
• Security & Operations: Support RBAC, namespace isolation, AppProjects, secret management and secure access to platform resources. Troubleshoot deployment failures, Argo CD drift, Helm issues and production incidents.
• Collaboration: Work closely with application, CMS, Sports, Media, QA, Network Engineering, Shared Services and InfoSec teams.