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Platform Engineer

3 platform engineers worth a look

Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £90,000 to £100,000.

3 people£90,000 to £95,000 asking
Names held back until you askSame working day replyWell under agency feesOnly if you hire
Each one has what they build, what they want and how they came across. Open a card for the evidence, or tick the ones worth a conversation and send them together.
Proof
  • Nineteen years in IT, moving from network and Windows administration into platform engineering across a used car marketplace, a digital bank and a global consultancy.
  • Manages Kubernetes on EKS and Kops with Terraform, Vault, Spacelift and AWS Control Tower for multi-account governance.
  • Holds Certified Kubernetes Administrator, Terraform Associate and 2 AWS associate certifications.
Stack

Kubernetes, EKS, Docker, Linux · AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Vault, Spacelift · Python, Bash, Datadog

Track record

Nineteen years across 7 employers, from French industrial and telecoms work into UK consumer marketplaces, a digital bank and now a global consultancy of more than 340,000 people. Average tenure 1 year 10 months with a longest stint of 3 years 9 months.

Worth knowing

Has ruled out west London and south London outliers like Croydon on commute grounds. One month notice.

Education

Vocational qualification in networking and telecoms. CKA, Terraform Associate and 2 AWS associate certifications.

No obligation, and nothing owed unless someone starts.
Proof
  • Heads a DevOps function of 5 to 6 people across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-premise estates, reporting to a director of operations.
  • Twenty years spanning service desk and change analysis through to senior infrastructure, at a defence group, a law firm, a managed services provider and financial services.
  • Runs Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops and VMware vSphere alongside cloud migration work, with Veeam, Commvault and NetApp behind recovery.
Stack

Windows Server, Active Directory, PowerShell · AWS, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes · VMware vSphere, Citrix CVAD, Veeam, Datadog

Track record

Twenty years across 8 employers, from a global IT services firm of more than 120,000 people through defence, legal and managed services into financial services. Average tenure 2 years 6 months with a longest stint of 4 years 8 months.

Worth knowing

Notice period unconfirmed, and the stack leans traditional infrastructure and virtualisation rather than cloud-native platform engineering.

Education

No degree on file. Microsoft and Citrix certified.

No obligation, and nothing owed unless someone starts.
Proof
  • Roughly a year spent on Datadog implementation, cost analysis and dashboard creation at a large sports betting business, alongside Prometheus and Grafana.
  • Eight years of DevOps across AWS and GCP, including building infrastructure from scratch at an open banking API company.
  • Certified Kubernetes Administrator running EKS and GKE, with Terraform, ArgoCD, Istio, Vault and Kafka in the estate.
Stack

Kubernetes, EKS, GKE, Docker · AWS, GCP, Terraform, ArgoCD, Helm · Datadog, Prometheus, Python

Track record

Twelve years across 6 employers, starting at 2 large Indian IT services firms, then streaming, an open banking API company and now sports betting. Average tenure 1 year 9 months with a longest stint of 2 years 8 months.

Worth knowing

Two months notice and a remote preference. Passive rather than active, so the pitch has to be worth the move.

Education

Engineering degree in electronics and communications. Certified Kubernetes Administrator.

No obligation, and nothing owed unless someone starts.

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Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.

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