Platform Engineer (Go / AWS / Kubernetes) Location: Central London (Hybrid – 3 days/week onsite) Job type: Long Term contract (inside IR35) Rate: £300 – £320 per day (inside IR35) Contract: Inside IR35 Industry: Financial Services Introduction: My client is urgently seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join a global Programme on a long-term contract assignment. The successful Platform Engineer will join the team to help shape secure, scalable, and flexible public cloud infrastructure. Tasks & Responsibilities: Design reference architectures & apps across cloud providers (e.g., web, batch, message-driven) Build Terraform modules/providers in Go Automate infrastructure provisioning & teardown (in minutes) Create ephemeral testing environments Drive cost transparency for teams Mentor engineers & advocate for developer experience Skills & Experience: 6–9 years’ experience in software/cloud engineering Expertise in Go, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Git Deep DevOps knowledge (CI/CD, cloud infra) Strong testing and documentation skills Collaborative mindset, agile experience (Scrum) Tech Stack: Go | Java | React | GitHub Actions | Docker | Kubernetes | Terraform (Enterprise) | Sentinel | OPA