Platform Engineer - London
Gibson Dunn2 months ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain self-service developer tooling, CLIs, libraries, templates, and internal platform capabilities.
- Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines, release processes, automated tests, and AI evaluation quality gates.
- Author infrastructure-as-code modules and deploy workloads across AWS or Azure, Kubernetes, and Docker using GitOps.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, tracing, and operational telemetry with participation in on-call and incident response.
- Apply platform security, secrets management, policy-as-code, vulnerability remediation, and confidentiality controls.
- Support AI platform capabilities including model access, retrieval, model gateways, agent orchestration, and evaluation workflows.
- Write automation, maintain runbooks and documentation, and collaborate with platform and development teams.
Requirements
- Production-quality coding proficiency in Go and Python, plus PowerShell or Bash, with Git, pull requests, code review, and automated testing.
- Working proficiency with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins for pipelines as code.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and GitOps concepts.
- Hands-on experience with AWS or Azure and Kubernetes or Docker.
- Familiarity with Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, ELK, or OpenTelemetry and basic SRE practices.
- Exposure to test automation, policy-as-code, and platform security practices.
- Five or more years of experience in platform, DevOps, infrastructure, or software engineering roles.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience supporting business-critical systems; professional-services, legal, or regulated-environment experience is ideal.
- ITIL knowledge, Lean or Agile experience, and AWS/Azure or Certified Kubernetes Administrator certifications are preferred.
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About Gibson Dunn
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is a global law firm that advises corporations, financial institutions, and boards on complex litigation, investigations, and corporate transactions. Founded in 1890 and headquartered in Los Angeles, the partnership operates across offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, generating revenue from hourly and alternative-fee legal services.