Senior Platform Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build
* £600–£650 p/d (Outside IR35)
* 5-month initial contract (extensions likely)
* Hybrid: London (2 days/week on-site)
* Opportunity to be perm is available also.
The Role
Join a newly formed Cloud Platform Engineering team building a greenfield Azure platform for a regulated banking venture. You’ll join as a senior individual contributor, taking ownership of the most complex, high-risk platform engineering work across a large Azure estate in a regulated financial services environment.
This is not a people management role — you’ll lead through your code, your technical judgement, and your ability to turn ambitious platform designs into secure, scalable, production-ready infrastructure.
You will:
* Own and deliver the highest-risk, most complex or ambiguous platform work
* Build and enhance Azure landing zones and internal platform services
* Deliver infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, self-service tooling and observability end-to-end
* Challenge design assumptions with a “show me the code” approach
* Pair with engineers to unblock delivery and lift team-wide engineering standards
Non-Negotiables:
* 8+ years infrastructure engineering in Azure environments
* Terraform expertise at scale: modules, composition, patterns and anti-patterns
* Strong Azure networking, security and governance knowledge
* Experience in regulated environments (FS, healthcare, government, etc.)
* CI/CD and automation experience (Azure DevOps/GitHub Actions, scripting)
* Ability to troubleshoot complex infra, identity, networking and security issues
* TDD/automated testing for infrastructure changes
* Experience mentoring and guiding other engineers
What You’ll Work With:
* Terraform: modular IaC, policy integration, testing and validation
* Azure Core: networking, security, identity, governance, landing zones
* Azure PaaS: App Service, Functions, container platforms (ACA/AKS)
* CI/CD: GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps with full automation
* Observability: logging, metrics, dashboards and alerting
* Incident Response: diagnosing and resolving complex platform issues
Why Join:
* Shape a secure, scalable Azure platform in a regulated financial services environment
* Own complex landing zones and platform capabilities that have organisation-wide impact
* Influence engineering standards, patterns and delivery practices
* Work in a collaborative, Kanban-driven team focused on high-quality delivery
* Lead through hands-on engineering, pairing and code reviews — not hierarchy
If you enjoy solving deep technical problems, shipping high-quality infrastructure, and elevating engineering teams through hands-on expertise, this role will suit you perfectly.
Senior Platform Engineer | Azure, Terraform, CI/CD | Bank-Grade Cloud Platform Build