Platform Architect
Licensed sponsor Sheffield, England, United Kingdom Contract Posted 6 hours ago
Senior Platform Architect – Private Cloud | Sheffield, UK | Hybrid
We are looking for a Senior Platform Architect / Staff Engineer with strong experience in Private Cloud and Platform Engineering.
Mandatory Skills:
- Kubernetes – cluster architecture, networking, upgrades, security, multitenancy
- Kafka – architecture, governance, resilience, security & capacity planning
- Virtualization / VMware
- Private Cloud / Platform Engineering
- IaC, CI/CD & GitOps
- Microservices & Distributed Systems
- Security, Observability & Resilience
Experience: 7–11+ years
Location: Sheffield, UK – Hybrid, 3 days onsite
Type: Contract / Fixed-Term
Preferred: Service Mesh, API Gateway, Secrets Management, Policy-as-Code, Developer Portals, Multi-Region/Active-Active.
