Role Title: Platform Engineer / SRE Duration: 6 Months Location: Milton Keynes (1 Day per Month Onsite) Rate: 550- 650p/d via Umbrella Clearance: Credit Check RequiredWhat You will doOperate and enhance our Kubernetes platform across AWS, Azure, and on-prem.Lead incident response, problem management, and root-cause analysis.Deliver cluster lifecycle work: upgrades, patching, node pools, CNI/CSI, ingress, and Rancher operations.Own observability, dashboards, alerting, and SLOs/SLIs.Implement GitOps (Fleet) and reduce toil through automation and strong governance.Apply secure API gateway and WAF patterns.Work with distributed system patterns, including event brokers and asynchronous messaging.Maintain security posture: CVE remediation, GRC controls, scanning pipelines. Your SkillsDeep knowledge of Kubernetes, Rancher, GitOps, Linux, and cloud networking.Understanding of API gateway and WAF patterns.Experience with distributed systems and event?driven architectures.Strong automation/scripting (Python, Go, Bash, PowerShell, .NET).IaC: Terraform for foundational/bootstrap cluster provisioning.Crossplane as an orchestration layer (leveraging Terraform providers).Ability to work securely within PCI DSS / GDPR patterns.CI/CD: Concourse, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps.Observability: Grafana, Prometheus, Jaeger/Tempo, CloudWatch, Loki, OpenTelemetry. Nice to HaveAWS operational experience.Service mesh (Istio/Kuma).Hybrid cloud experience (AWS + Azure + on-prem).Payments or regulated ..... full job details .....