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Date Added: Tue 05/08/2025

Senior Platform Engineer

Cardiff, UK
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Company: YOLK RECRUITMENT LTD

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £70000.00 - £80000.00 per annum

📌 Senior Platform Engineer
📍 Cardiff / Hybrid
💰 Up to £80,000 + annual share scheme + excellent benefits

What You'll Do:

You'll help drive platform engineering maturity by delivering cloud-native infrastructure, scalable CI/CD tooling, and shared services that empower cross-functional teams. Your focus will be on enhancing observability, automating operational processes, and ensuring that systems are well-documented and supportable.

Working with tools such as GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and Azure DevOps, you'll create efficient, reliable environments while promoting a culture of standardisation and proactive knowledge sharing across engineering teams.

What You'll Bring:

  • Proven experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Kubernetes (GKE)
  • Hands-on expertise deploying and managing workloads using Helm charts
  • Strong skills in Terraform for infrastructure-as-code delivery
  • Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with Azure DevOps
  • Solid grasp of Git version control and GitOps principles
  • Familiarity with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or GCP Operations Suite
  • Scripting ability with tools like Bash or Python
  • Understanding of shared service models, access control, and platform support processes
  • Desirable: experience with ArgoCD and service mesh platforms such as Anthos

Why You Should Apply:

You'll join a people-first team that encourages innovation, supports career development, and values shared knowledge. With flexible working, up to 38 days holiday, and up to £3,600 in free shares each year, this is an opportunity to build scalable infrastructure while shaping the future of a collaborative platform engineering culture.

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