* Location: London (3 days per week onsite)
* Contract: 6 months initial (high likelihood of extension)
* Rate: £600 per day
* Outside IR35
The Opportunity
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.
What You’ll Be Working On
* 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
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
Required Experience
We are looking for strong hands-on platform / cloud engineers with:
* 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
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
The Environment
* 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