Platform Engineer

## About the Role
The Platform Engineering team at builds and operates the firm's engineering platform, which spans cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, on-call, and our internal developer portal. We provide the secure, automated foundations upon which the firm's regulated services run.

We are seeking a Platform Engineer to help scale this platform through standardized, automated, and compliant patterns. This role will accelerate delivery for our development teams while raising operational resilience across the entire estate.

Our team is cross-skilled by design; rather than narrow specialization, we encourage every engineer to work across the platform, fostering broader coverage, resilience, and shared ownership.

## Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of larger, moderately complex platform projects, setting objectives and delivering against project goals with a direct impact on team results.
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure patterns and reusable Terraform modules across Azure, AWS, and OCI, with a primary focus on Azure.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) libraries to ensure consistent, compliant, and repeatable environments across all cloud providers.
- Build and support CI/CD and deployment automation using Git Hub Actions, Octopus Deploy, and ArgoCD, as well as configuration management using Ansible and Octopus Deploy.
- Support and enable development delivery teams by provisioning autonomous environments and reducing deployment friction while maintaining guardrails and separation of duties.
- Provide operational support for containerized and micro-service workloads on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), maintaining high availability and reliability.
- Manage core infrastructure lifecycle tasks, including vulnerability remediation and patching, upgrades, scaling, and decommissioning across Windows and Linux estates.
- Drive the adoption of cloud governance policies, security standards, and architectural best practices, and help maintain continuous compliance evidence against the firm's obligations (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, DORA).
- Contribute to observability and monitoring across the estate, and to incident response and on-call,



including troubleshooting and root cause analysis that drives systemic improvement.
- Support disaster recovery testing to validate recovery plans and ensure rapid, reliable restoration of services.
- Identify and recommend improvements to systems, processes, and infrastructure patterns to enhance operational resilience, performance, and cost efficiency.
- Explain and advocate technical approaches to development delivery teams and colleagues across IT, influencing platform practices and standards at an operational level.
- Provide guidance, code review, and support to junior engineers, helping them develop across the platform.
- Document infrastructure blueprints, standards, and standard operating procedures in Confluence and our internal Platform Portal to enable self-service.
- Participate in the on-call rota to support critical infrastructure services.

## Requirements

### Essential Knowledge & Experience
- Bachelor's degree (e.g., B.E./B. Tech) in Computer Science, IT, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience, with a minimum of three years' experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Infrastructure Engineer, Dev Ops Engineer, or a similar role.
- Strong experience designing and implementing infrastructure in Azure and AWS.
- Deep, hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Experience building and debugging CI/CD and deployment pipelines (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Octopus Deploy, Azure Dev Ops, or similar).
- Strong Windows OS management in cloud environments; solid Linux fundamentals (deeper experience is a plus).
- Proficient in a scripting language such as Power Shell, with experience automating operational workflows.
- Sound understanding of cloud security principles, identity and access management (Entra ID / IAM), and network security.




- Understanding of application architectures and CI/CD workflows, and how infrastructure aligns with them.
- Experience working closely with development delivery teams in an agile environment, using tooling such as Jira and Confluence to manage and track work.
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, with the ability to explain technical decisions to non-technical stakeholders.
- AI-literate, with the ability to adopt and apply AI-assisted engineering tooling (e.g., Git Hub Copilot, AI coding assistants and agents) to accelerate delivery, automation, and documentation, and a willingness to keep pace with an evolving AI toolset.
- Able to manage multiple concurrent workstreams, balancing project delivery, BAU (Business As Usual), and support commitments, prioritizing effectively, and working independently across competing demands.
- Comfortable collaborating with UK-based colleagues across time zones as part of a global team.
- Able to participate in the on-call rota, as on-call is a requirement of this role.

### Desirable Skills
- Experience operating in a regulated financial services or otherwise highly governed environment.
- Certification in Azure, AWS, or Dev Ops practices.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (AKS), ArgoCD, and containerised services.
- Experience with Ansible for configuration management and DR tooling.
- Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
- Knowledge of Fin Ops and cloud cost-management best practices.
- Experience integrating AI or agentic tooling into engineering workflows (e.g., IaC generation, automated remediation, or documentation).
- Exposure to compliance-evidence or governance tooling and incident-management tooling.

## What We Offer
- Participation in the on-call rota is a requirement of this role; standing on-call allowances apply.
- Opportunities for skilled growth, including certifications in Azure, AWS, and Dev Ops practices, within a deliberately cross-skilled team.
- Join a global, collaborative team that values innovation, ownership, and continuous learning, with a direct impact on the resilience of the firm's platforms.

📌 Senior Platform Engineer/Devops- MNC Financial Organization (India)
🏢 RiverForest Connections Private
📍 India