Principal Platform Engineer - Kubernetes, GitOps & Argo CD

About the role

This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership to design, build and improve secure, scalable enterprise platform capabilities. It centres on Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms, GitOps workflows and infrastructure automation.

Key responsibilities

• Design and operate enterprise Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.
• Build GitOps deployment workflows using Argo CD, including promotion, rollback and configuration controls.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and automated infrastructure provisioning.
• Establish secure CI/CD patterns and self-service developer platform capabilities.
• Improve observability, resilience, disaster recovery and platform reliability.
• Partner with security and application teams on standards, guardrails and adoption.

Required profile

• Advanced Kubernetes and container-platform engineering.
• Production experience with GitOps and Argo CD.
• Evidence of leading platform engineering design and implementation.
• Preferred: experience delivering technology solutions in banking, financial services or another highly regulated enterprise; strong hands-on technical leadership preferred over purely managerial experience.

Required skills

• Terraform, CI/CD, Linux, networking and cloud infrastructure.
• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Argo CD.