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Principal Platform Engineer || Agentic AI || Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

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1 month ago
Staines-upon-Thames, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Implement, configure, maintain, and support the IFS Internal Developer Platform end to end.
  • Build self-service workflows, service catalogue entries, scaffolders, golden path templates, and infrastructure workflows.
  • Integrate IDP tooling with Kairos, Nexus, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native infrastructure.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD integration patterns for product teams.
  • Create developer-facing documentation, guides, and enablement materials.
  • Provide platform support and technical enablement to product development teams.
  • Contribute to platform standards, architectural decisions, and the IDP roadmap.
  • Identify and resolve platform reliability and performance issues while collaborating with adjacent platform teams.

Requirements

  • Hands-on experience building or operating Internal Developer Platforms in production environments.
  • Practical experience with IDP tooling such as Backstage, Port, Cortex, or comparable platforms.
  • Experience implementing service catalogues, scaffolders, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure workflows.
  • Familiarity with CI/CD integration, cloud-native infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps toolchains, event-driven architecture, Kubernetes, containers, and GitOps.
  • Strong hands-on engineering capability across Go, React with Next.js, Apache Kafka or RedPanda, and PostgreSQL, or the ability to develop it quickly.
  • Strong understanding of developer experience principles and platform thinking.
  • Ability to work across platform and product team boundaries and support development teams in a platform capacity.
  • Demonstrable hands-on experience designing, building, and shipping production AI applications; experience limited to using AI coding assistants is insufficient.

Benefits

  • Flexible and hybrid work opportunities.
  • Inclusive workplace experiences and opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in a global environment.
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About IFS

5,001-10,000 employees
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