Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

TL;DR

Platform Engineer (Kubernetes): Building and operating cloud infrastructure, platform services, and backend tooling that support hirify.global’s microservices with an accent on Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, and developer experience. Focus on designing self-service infrastructure abstractions, managing distributed systems, and solving complex scalability, reliability, migration, and security challenges.

Location: Cardiff, London, or remote within the UK; occasional meetings in London may be required, with travel costs supported for engineers based outside London.

Salary: £65,000–£80,000 base salary, plus performance-linked incentive awards.

Company

hirify.global is a UK fintech company providing personal and business banking, savings, investments, pensions, credit cards, and related financial products.

What you will do

• Build and maintain foundational platform tools and cloud infrastructure for hirify.global’s engineering teams.
• Operate Kubernetes clusters, AWS and GCP infrastructure, service mesh components, and networking systems.
• Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and integrate open-source platform components.
• Design and implement backend services, APIs, and controllers that provide simplified self-service infrastructure.
• Develop solutions for infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management, security tooling, reliability, and performance.
• Collaborate with platform teams to abstract cloud complexity and improve developer experience.

Requirements

• Practical software engineering experience, including writing, testing, and deploying robust backend services.
• Interest or experience in AWS and/or GCP and Kubernetes.
• Experience with automation and infrastructure as code, such as Terraform.
• Ability to investigate complex system issues and understand how distributed applications fail and scale.
• Interest in building reliable, performant platforms that enable other engineers to work effectively.
• Must be based in the UK for remote work and able to attend occasional meetings in London.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with Go, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, or Envoy Proxy.
• Experience with infrastructure migrations, high-scale traffic management, or security tooling.

Culture & Benefits

• Distributed working across the UK with flexible working hours and no regular office attendance requirement.
• Support for travel to London when in-person meetings are requested.
• £1,000 annual learning budget for books, courses, and conferences.
• Performance-linked incentive awards and additional employee benefits.
• Inclusive workplace with a focus on diversity, support, and professional growth.

Hiring process

• Initial call.
• Take-home task or pair-coding exercise.
• Final interview covering system design and behavioural topics; the average process takes around four weeks.