IAM Platform Engineer

Posted 23 July 2026
LocationSheffield
Job type Contract
Discipline Technology

Job description

In this role, you will:

  • Build and maintain cloud-native platform services supporting the IDAM 2.0 programme.

  • Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components.

  • Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for repeatable, automated deployments.

  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment workflows.

  • Manage cloud networking, connectivity and platform security.

  • Implement platform observability including logging, monitoring, metrics and distributed tracing.

  • Automate platform provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.

  • Support deployment and operation of identity platform components and supporting services.

  • Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.

  • Configure service mesh technologies and secure service-to-service communication.

  • Manage ingress, API gateways and network routing components.

  • Implement platform resilience, backup, disaster recovery and high availability capabilities.

  • Support workload identity and platform authentication mechanisms.

  • Ensure platform compliance with enterprise security, governance and regulatory requirements.

  • Optimise platform performance, scalability and cost efficiency.

  • Develop operational tooling, scripts and self-service capabilities.

  • Support incident management, troubleshooting and root cause analysis.

  • Collaborate with Security, Architecture and Engineering teams to deliver secure platform services.

  • Contribute to platform standards, operational documentation and runbooks.

  • Support environment management across development, test, pilot and production environments.

  • Drive continuous improvement through automation and platform engineering best practices.

Key Skills & Experience

Essential Skills

  • Cloud Platform Engineering (GCP)

  • Kubernetes Administration

  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent)

  • CI/CD Pipelines

  • GitOps

  • Linux Administration

  • Networking and Load Balancing

  • Service Mesh Technologies (Istio/Envoy)

  • Container Platforms

  • Secrets Management

  • PKI and Certificate Management

  • Workload Identity

  • Observability (Logging, Monitoring and Tracing)

  • Scripting and Automation

  • DevSecOps

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

  • Performance and Capacity Management

  • Operational Support

  • Global Deployment Strategies

  • Positive can-do attitude adept at solutio