Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £100,000 to £120,000.
Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, Terraform and AWS infrastructure at a financial software product company, with CI/CD pipelines as the day job. The last stretch has branched into AI security, governance and policy, which is where they want the career to go next. Six years of development and lead robotic process automation work behind it, so they read code as well as run it.
Looking forWants to move up into architecture decisions and security governance rather than stay in operations. Two days a week in a London office is the hard cap and they were firm about it.
How they came acrossPassively looking rather than urgent, and picky about what they'd move for. Clear about the ceiling of the current role without running it down, which is a good sign for how they'd talk about you later.
Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, AWS · Python, Java, .NET · CI/CD, Git · AI security and policy, FIDO2, MFA
7 employers over 16 years across consulting, staffing technology and banking technology, now a financial software product business. Average tenure 1 year, longest stint 4 years 3 months.
Two days a week in a London office is a firm limit, and the DevOps experience is only about 2 years deep sitting on top of a much longer development and automation career.
Masters in Advanced Computer Science, a Russell Group university.
Sole platform engineer at a scaleup running dual AWS and GCP, owning cloud foundations, networking, org-level setup, security, SRE and developer experience. Close to 20 years in total, with Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and an attempted Crossplane adoption. The certification list is unusually long: CKA, CKAD, CKS, Terraform Associate and five Google Cloud professional certs. Came up through senior PHP development, so understands what a platform is actually for.
Looking forDoing the work of 5 people for a non-technical manager with no platform peers, and that's the whole reason they're leaving. Wants a functioning platform team, greenfield or modernisation work, and won't do 3 or more days a week on site.
How they came acrossDescribes an awful situation plainly rather than complaining about it. Responsive, engaged with both roles we put in front of them, and ready to start a process now.
Terraform, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm · AWS, GCP, Azure · Go, Python · Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus
18 roles across 14 years on the record, permanent and contract, spanning fintech, research panels, media measurement and consultancies, now contracting as the only platform engineer at a scaleup. Average tenure 8 months.
18 roles on the record with an 8 month average, much of it contract, plus 3 months notice, so ask about stability directly rather than hoping.
Mathematics and computer science background, qualification level not recorded.
Three years running platform, DevOps and SRE at a ride-hailing and food delivery business serving millions of customers across North Africa and parts of Europe. Owns reliability and the Datadog observability setup, on GCP and AWS, with Kubernetes both on-prem and in cloud. Compliance work across GDPR, PCI-DSS and ISO 27001, and the certification list is deep on Kubernetes.
Looking forNot unhappy, just after more variety and autonomy. Wants a peer-level environment without heavy management layers, interesting system design problems and a stronger culture than the one they're in.
How they came acrossMotivated by the problem and the people rather than the money, which they volunteered before we asked. Has been a CTO, so has seen the other side of the table, and works comfortably across several teams at once.
Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, ArgoCD · GCP, AWS · Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana · Python, Go
6 employers in 8 years across MLOps, data engineering and platform, including a CTO role at a Y Combinator-backed startup and time at a large pan-African engineering firm, now 3 years at a ride-hailing and delivery platform. Average tenure 1 year 5 months.
Based in Birmingham rather than London, and holds a Global Talent visa with indefinite leave to remain, so no sponsorship is needed.
Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering, with CKA, CKAD and Google professional DevOps engineer certifications.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
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