Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: May 7 2027
Work set up: Hybrid (3 days per week in office)
Clearance required: Must be eligible for BPSS checks

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join its technology team and play a critical role in the design implementation and operation of modern cloud and platform engineering capabilities. The role is suited to an experienced engineer with strong expertise in AWS Kubernetes DevOps and Infrastructure as Code who can operate effectively in complex enterprise-scale environments and build secure resilient and highly scalable platforms.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will collaborate with engineering teams architects security specialists and business stakeholders to deliver innovative cloud-native solutions supporting critical business services. The role will contribute to platform strategy drive automation initiatives enhance operational excellence and help shape the future of cloud and infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to cloud DevOps and platform engineering initiatives across Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Kubernetes to deliver secure scalable and highly available infrastructure capabilities.
• Work within one or more engineering pods to define technical requirements conduct design reviews and provide hands-on engineering support throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Design build configure and operate AWS-based solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) primarily Terraform to improve consistency reliability and deployment efficiency.
• Develop and enhance Kubernetes platform capabilities to support increasing demand while improving resilience scalability performance operational efficiency and developer experience.
• Implement and maintain cloud cost management practices including resource tagging allocation rightsizing capacity planning usage monitoring and cost optimisation strategies.
• Support the evaluation and adoption of open-source technologies and Large Language Model (LLM) solutions ensuring alignment with security privacy licensing regulatory and operational requirements.
• Apply robust release management and production-readiness processes including automation deployment governance monitoring alerting logging rollback procedures and incident preparedness.
• Collaborate with Cloud Services Application DevOps Architecture Security Risk Compliance and IT teams to achieve platform standards remediation activities and delivery objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform stability security observability and operational excellence.

Qualifications :

• Extensive hands-on experience in cloud engineering platform engineering or DevOps within large-scale enterprise environments.
• Proven ability to design build deploy monitor and support production platforms and cloud infrastructure.
• Strong practical knowledge of AWS and Kubernetes including the delivery of highly available secure resilient and scalable solutions.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Experience with modern DevOps practices including Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) automated testing version control and controlled production deployments.
• Working knowledge of Docker Helm service mesh technologies Python cloud-native deployment tools monitoring logging and alerting platforms.
• Experience supporting cloud migrations and addressing governance compliance security resilience capacity management and operational readiness challenges.
• Sound understanding of cloud financial management resource governance and cost optimisation with the ability to identify and implement measurable improvements.
• Strong knowledge of security best practices architecture governance compliance requirements risk management and the responsible adoption of emerging technologies.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum and DevOps delivery frameworks.
• Experience evaluating integrating or operating multi-vendor Large Language Model (LLM) workloads within AWS and Kubernetes environments is desirable.
• Previous experience in a highly regulated industry particularly financial services or banking is desirable.
• Familiarity with collaboration and delivery tools such as Jira and Confluence is advantageous.
• Relevant cloud Kubernetes or DevOps certifications are advantageous.

Additional Information :

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract