Vetted on a call by a Wave consultant, not scraped. £110,000 to £120,000.
Kubernetes, Terraform and GitOps done properly, with the certifications to back it rather than a tool list. Currently running an Azure migration and the technical separation of a platform inside a heavily regulated legal business that is being sold, which is about as messy as platform work gets. Before that, AWS Control Tower, service control policies, hub and spoke networking, Kyverno policy enforcement and EKS across several employers.
Looking forThe division is being sold, so they're moving before the redundancy rather than waiting for it, with a voluntary payout and availability from mid-October 2026. Wants a specialised, cloud-focused business and named large generalist consultancies as the thing to avoid.
How they came acrossPragmatic and self-aware. Left a well-paid contract once purely because it wasn't hard enough, and was upfront that the last 3 years have been Azure-heavy while being confident about picking AWS back up.
Kubernetes, EKS, AKS, Helm, Istio · Terraform, Pulumi, Crossplane, CloudFormation · AWS, Azure, GCP, ArgoCD, Prometheus, Grafana
Consultancy and platform engineering across a legal information provider, a defence AI startup, a field service software business, a digital agency group and now the technology division of an international law firm. 7 employers, average stint 2 years 5 months, with a longest of 11 years 10 months.
Last 3 years have been Azure-led, so AWS depth is a little rusty and they said so. Won't go back to a large generalist consultancy.
Degree in computer software engineering. CKA, Terraform Associate and 3 AWS associate certifications.
Twenty-plus years of infrastructure behind a genuinely modern SRE practice. Embedded with service teams at a large enterprise workflow SaaS business, defining SLIs and SLOs, designing observability, running architectural reviews and cutting toil. The unusual part is the previous chapter, a senior specialist solutions architect for databases at a hyperscale cloud provider, which means SQL and NoSQL depth most SREs don't have.
Looking forNot hunting, but open. Wants impactful projects, a strong team and a modern stack, and named the thing they'd refuse, a legacy platform with no clear modernisation path.
How they came acrossDoes their homework. Checked public reviews of a business before agreeing to talk and raised a reorganisation concern directly rather than going quiet. Wants scope, team and projects spelled out before committing to anything.
Kubernetes, Crossplane, Terraform, Ansible · Python, Bash, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka · AWS, Azure, GCP, Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog
Linux and database engineering at hosting and infrastructure firms, then a recruitment software scale-up, a hyperscale cloud provider, an AI consultancy and now a workflow SaaS business. 7 employers, average stint 2 years 1 month.
Will not take on a legacy estate with no modernisation plan, and will ask hard questions before saying yes to anything. Notice period not confirmed.
Degree in economics and management. AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS Database Specialty and CKA.
Runs AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes clusters inside the cloud infrastructure team of a UK digital bank, coming up on 6 years there. Terraform for the estate, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk and Honeycomb for the observability layer, Linkerd, cert-manager and ExternalDNS around the clusters. Earlier career went deeper into the metal than most, Ceph and GlusterFS storage engines, OpenStack, and Go and Perl tooling.
Looking forNo push factor worth reporting. What they're after is interesting problems, ownership of projects, and infrastructure that is still maturing rather than finished. No travel requirement, and remote or hybrid.
How they came acrossPragmatic about money in a way that is unusual at this level. Weighed non-financial factors against a salary gap and was genuinely curious about how technically mature the environment was, rather than asking about title.
AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, EKS, Helm · Terraform, Ansible, GoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions · Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Vault, Kafka
Software engineering, test and systems administration across several technology firms, then DevOps at an authentication company and 6 years of SRE at a UK digital bank. 8 employers, average stint 2 years.
3 months notice, and no travel is part of what they're looking for, so a role with regular client or site visits won't fit.
Tell me which came closest and I recalibrate, then come back with 10 to 15 more inside 24 hours.
Show me the wider bank