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Platform Engineer

eFinancialCareers
London, United Kingdom
Last month
£650 pd

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£650 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Part-time
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
13 Apr 2026 (Last month)
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Platform Engineer | Trading Firm

Central London | 3 days on site

Outside IR35 | Up to £650 per day

A trading firm in central London has rolled out a business wide data platform and now needs a senior Platform Engineer to take full control of the platform layer. Kubernetes is the heart of this environment and they need someone who can run it with confidence, precision and zero drama.

What they need you to bring

  • Serious Kubernetes depth covering cluster design, workload orchestration, autoscaling strategies, multi cluster operations, network policy, resource tuning and deep debugging across pods, nodes and the control plane
  • Deep Linux fluency with the ability to harden, tune and own production environments from top to bottom
  • Strong SQL engineering skills covering schema design, performance tuning and high throughput optimisation
  • Solid C# background with clean, maintainable service patterns
  • Ability to design, build and refine CI/CD pipelines that support rapid and safe releases
  • Reliability thinking baked in: monitoring, alerting, SLOs, incident handling and failure mode analysis
  • Confident across cloud infrastructure with the ability to stitch services together with minimal overhead

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