Senior/Staff Platform Engineer (AI)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Employment type: Full time

Company

hirify.global is building an AI-enabled autonomous banking platform for Tier-1 financial institutions within its banking group.

What you will do

• Build and scale multi-region Kubernetes infrastructure across EKS, GKE, and AKS for five-nines workloads.
• Architect active-active distributed systems and implement Terraform, Helm, and Flux-based GitOps across cloud and hybrid environments.
• Own disaster recovery, failover, backup and restore, multi-region resiliency, zero-trust security, identity, tenant isolation, and cryptographic audit trails.
• Build observability stacks with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and OpenTelemetry.
• Lead AI-driven SRE automation, including auto-remediation, incident insights, and AI-based root-cause analysis.
• Support on-premises, air-gapped, and legacy-integrated deployments while mentoring and coaching engineers.

Requirements

• Deep Kubernetes experience, including EKS, GKE, or AKS; operators and CRDs are a bonus.
• Experience with multi-cloud Terraform and GitOps tooling such as Flux or ArgoCD.
• Experience with Kafka or event streaming and distributed SQL databases.
• Programming experience in Go, Rust, or a similar language.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry observability stacks.
• Experience designing and owning disaster recovery, high availability, and zero-trust architectures.
• Strong ownership across the full infrastructure lifecycle and comfort operating in hybrid-cloud and regulated environments.
• Ability to integrate LLMs and agentic workflows into daily engineering practice.

Culture & Benefits

• High autonomy and accountability within a small, senior team.
• Work directly affects core banking platforms used by Tier-1 global institutions.
• Production responsibility at enterprise scale, combining startup autonomy with hirify.global resources and stability.
• Knowledge sharing, mentoring, coaching, and engineering best-practice development are part of the role.

Hiring process

• hirify.global primarily uses direct sourcing; unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies outside the preferred supplier list are not accepted.