Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. Up to £90,000.
Set up Helm and Terraform golden paths that 17 product squads and around 120 engineers now build on, and architected a self-service internal developer platform in Flask and Next.js with Azure AD single sign-on. Cut Google Cloud spend by 38%, roughly 170,000 dollars a year. Operating at staff engineer scope on a senior title, with GCP, Terraform, Argo CD, Kubernetes and Backstage as the working set.
Looking forWaited 2 years for a career conversation that never happened, on 5-star reviews throughout, and calls the promises false ones. Wants a formal platform engineering role with the seniority recognised, greenfield work and remote flexibility. Won't take a narrow DevOps or SRE remit.
How they came acrossSelective about what they go for and honest about why, including calling the post-acquisition period a political nightmare. Keen to move fast, and had annual leave booked to make a process easy.
Terraform, Helm, Kubernetes, GKE · GCP, AWS · Argo CD, GitLab CI, Backstage · Python, Go, Bash
7 employers across 14 years, from IT support and consultancy into cloud infrastructure, then 7 years at a marketing technology group through its acquisition by a Netherlands buyer. Average tenure 2 years 3 months, longest stint 4 years 2 months.
Has ruled out heavy hybrid or on-site work and anything that is DevOps or SRE without broader platform scope, and notice is 2 months.
Sub-degree ICT qualifications, with CompTIA A+ and a City and Guilds Level 3 diploma.
Platform engineering on enterprise HPC, running Kubernetes clusters, GitOps deployments and monitoring for global-scale infrastructure, with Slurm scheduling on the HPC side. Terraform, Ansible, GitLab pipelines and OpenStack, plus ISO 27001 work, IAM, RBAC and penetration-test remediation. Came up through enterprise IT support into satellite mapping infrastructure, so the Linux fundamentals are solid.
Looking forLeaving because a 55-mile each-way drive isn't sustainable, and because there's no time or support for certifications where they are. Wants AWS enterprise cloud exposure and a route toward solutions architect. Will do 4 days on site if it's reachable by train.
How they came acrossPicks learning over money, explicitly, and said so when the salary conversation came up. Currently on 45,000, so the 57,500 asking is a correction rather than a stretch.
Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes · AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack · GitLab CI/CD, ArgoCD · Python, Bash, Linux, Grafana
3 employers across 8 years, from a health technology startup into satellite mapping infrastructure and then the HPC platform team of a geoscience business. Average tenure 2 years 7 months, longest stint 3 years 6 months.
Our own read is that the enterprise cloud experience is thinner than the infrastructure-as-code and Linux depth, and anything needing a daily drive from Dartford is out.
Bachelors in Computer Science, with Azure Fundamentals, ITIL Foundation, CompTIA A+ and Network+.
Twenty-five-plus years on enterprise infrastructure, currently contracting through their own limited company on flexible day-to-day work. The unusual bit is GPU cluster and HPC deployment, which they deliberately keep off the CV but is real expertise. Dual certified on AWS and Azure, with Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Helm, Flux CD, Proxmox, Ceph and VMware, plus VCP and VCAP on the virtualisation side.
Looking forWants out of contracting and into a permanent job for the stability. Prefers a company of 100 to 200 people where the work is visible. Needs remote flexibility and won't do 3 or more days a week on site.
How they came acrossValues technically sophisticated work over routine office work and is clear about it rather than apologetic. Straightforward about the constraints on their week too, instead of hoping nobody would ask.
Kubernetes, EKS, Terraform, Helm, Flux CD · AWS, Azure · Proxmox, Ceph, VMware · Python, PowerShell
10 employers across 27 years in telecoms, media measurement and IT services, including a global telecoms equipment maker of more than 100,000 people, now contracting through their own limited company. Average tenure 3 years 6 months, longest stint 9 years 11 months.
Won't work for a company over 100,000 people and won't do 3 or more days on site, and says a daily driving commute would burn them out inside a few months.
Masters in Computational Science.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank