Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £100,000 to £120,000.
Building an internal AI gateway on AWS Bedrock to standardise how the whole business uses models, with guardrails, evals and usage monitoring wrapped around it. The platform work sits on an SRE and application security base, so on-call, SLIs and SLOs, incident response and chaos engineering are all first hand. TypeScript, Python and Bash, with Terraform and GitHub Actions.
Looking forWants an AI-native company, either building AI products or doing platform work right next to them. Not unhappy, just aiming at a specific kind of place.
How they came acrossDescribed themselves as passively slash actively looking, which is about the most honest version of that answer we get. The security background shows in how they frame a problem, starting from what could go wrong.
TypeScript, Python, Bash, Node.js · AWS, Bedrock, Serverless, Terraform, Cloudflare · Docker, GitHub Actions, MCP
Seven years across only 3 employers, from travel technology into a large customer experience software business and now live entertainment. Average tenure 1 year 8 months with a longest stint of 2 years 9 months.
One month notice and no obvious blockers. The real risk is losing them to a pure AI product role rather than a platform one.
BEng in electronic and computer engineering, plus AWS Developer and Solutions Architect Associate.
Ran on-premise bare metal Kubernetes alongside GCP and AWS, owning CI/CD, automation and observability end to end. Eight of the 13 years are blockchain infrastructure, including validator operations, high availability RPC clusters and public chain services. Cilium and eBPF at the network layer, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Jaeger for observability, PagerDuty on the rota.
Looking forWants somewhere infrastructure is treated as a product rather than a ticket queue, and where a software development background actually gets used. Open across company size, startup through to large.
How they came acrossThe whole company was let go at once, so there's no story to unpick there. Product-minded for an infrastructure engineer, which is what our consultant flagged as the differentiator. Contributed to Ethereum documentation and built developer communities around it.
Kubernetes, Linux, Cilium, eBPF · AWS, GCP, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitOps · Prometheus, Grafana, Python
Thirteen years across 5 employers, starting at a global IT services firm of more than 300,000 people, then Indian consultancy, then 8 years in blockchain infrastructure. Average tenure 2 years 1 month with a longest stint of 5 years 1 month.
Laid off in April 2026 when the company ran out of money and let everyone go. Immediately available and already in a few mid-stage conversations, so this one moves fast.
BSc in computer science, plus IBM blockchain certifications.
Most senior individual contributor on a 4 person platform team at a large software business, building internal developer tooling on a Kubernetes-heavy estate. AWS across EKS, EC2, RDS, VPC, IAM and Lambda, with Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD and GitOps in the delivery path and Crossplane alongside. Has standardised multi-account cloud estates and written the reusable modules and golden paths behind them.
Looking forWants a mature platform engineering function, internal developer platforms and self-service tooling, not ticket-driven DevOps. Greenfield appeals.
How they came acrossSays they've done their job and finished the mission, which is an unusually clean reason to leave. Autonomous, happy without close supervision, and has recently picked up a new VP of Infrastructure as a manager.
AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Terraform · Helm, ArgoCD, GitOps, Crossplane, GitLab CI · Python, Go, Prometheus
Thirteen years across 7 employers, from teaching computer science in the UAE through IoT and iGaming into cloud architecture, latterly Berlin and now Birmingham. Average tenure 1 year 2 months with a longest stint of 2 years 1 month.
Won't take a role that needs a day a week in a London office. Average tenure of 14 months is short and worth probing.
Masters in mechanical engineering from a globally ranked university. CKA, AWS Solutions Architect and Terraform Associate.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank