Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

London (Fully Remote or Hybrid)

6 Month Contract

A fantastic contract opportunity has opened for an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join a highly respected technology organisation. Contractors speak positively about the culture here - fast-paced, collaborative, and with real autonomy to influence engineering outcomes.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design and build the internal tools, services, and platforms that power modern software delivery. From shaping CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes to developing runtime environments and cloud services, your work will directly enable faster, more reliable, and more secure software delivery at scale.

This role goes beyond maintenance - as a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll be creating, iterating, and solving genuine engineering challenges. You'll collaborate closely with product and engineering teams across the stack to improve developer experience, strengthen observability, and troubleshoot complex distributed systems. A focus on clean, maintainable code, cloud infrastructure, and strong security practices is essential.

Senior Platform Engineer - Key Skills & Experience:

• Solid background in software engineering, with significant platform or backend experience
• Proficiency in Go and/or Python for building internal tools and services
• Strong expertise in AWS, including CloudFront and related web application services
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern deployment practices
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform
• Strong understanding of security best practices in application and infrastructure design
• Exposure to observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, structured logging)
• Confident debugging and resolving issues in complex distributed systems
• Product-oriented mindset with a collaborative approach to improving developer experience
• Bonus: experience with Kafka, gRPC, or contributing to open-source projects

If you're a Senior Platform Engineer who thrives on building tools and systems that empower developers and accelerate delivery, apply today. The client is looking to move quickly.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates, regardless of race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.