Platform Engineer

Department Global Platform Solutions

Reports To Associate Director Engineering

Level 4

About your team

The GPS Delivery - Record Keeping team consists of approximately 200 members responsible for developing and maintaining the systems-of-record used to manage the accounts and investments of our more than 1.5 million workplace and retail customers in the UK. In performing these duties, we play a critical role in delivering our core product and value proposition to these clients both currently and in the future

About your role As a Cloud Engineer at Fidelity International, you will work with senior business leaders, product owners, and technology teams to develop or enhance the record-keeping platform. Collaborating with the business and technology architects, you will leverage your cloud engineering experience for design, definition, exploration, and delivery of solutions.

Key qualifications include:

Agile environment experience using tools like Jira and Confluence

Knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, DevOps toolchains

Proficiency in Python and Unix scripting.

You should be passionate about delivering high-quality, scalable solutions while focusing on customer needs and being open to challenges. You'll influence stakeholders, support team formation, and deliver a greenfield solution, collaborating and sharing knowledge with the global team.

About you

This role requires a proactive engineer with strong technical background and influence, who can work with development teams on technology architecture, cloud practices, troubleshooting, and implementation.

Responsibilities:

Provide technical expertise in design and coding.

Collaborate with product owners to identify improvements and customer requirements.

Ensure timely, efficient, and cost-effective delivery.

Manage stakeholders across Technology and Business teams.

Ensure technical solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements and align with Global Technology Strategies.

Serve as a trusted advisor to the business.

Partner with Architecture, business, and central groups within a global team. The ideal candidate will possess over six years of experience as a software engineer, with expertise in the following areas:

Extensive experience with Kubernetes (K8s) for deploying, managing, and maintaining containerized applications.

In-depth knowledge of AWS services, including EC2, VPC, IAM, Serverless offerings, RDS, Route 53, and CloudFront.

Proficiency in leveraging generative AI for daily tasks, utilizing agents and co-pilots to build, test, and manage applications and code.

Comprehensive understanding of agentic, A2A, MCP, RAG, and AI concepts.

Experience with monitoring and logging tools for Kubernetes clusters.

Strong working knowledge of containerization technologies such as Docker.

Proven experience in managing monolithic record-keeping platforms within DevOps and deployment pipelines.

Understanding of UNIX system architecture.

Solid grasp of networking core concepts.

Advanced knowledge and expertise in serverless architecture and related AWS offerings.

Proficiency in Terraform, including core concepts and hands-on implementation.

Hands-on experience with Unix scripting and Python programming.

Practical experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Ansible.

Familiarity with container technologies which will be advantageous.

Working knowledge of APIs, caching mechanisms, and messaging systems.

Mastery of at least one programming language or framework, such as Java, NodeJS, or Python.

Expertise in test-driven development (TDD) and pair programming best practices alongside CI/CD pipelines.

Excellent communication skills and a keen interest in a collaborative pair-programming environment.

A strong passion for professional growth and addressing challenging problems. This position demands candidates who are committed to continuous learning and capable of tackling complex issues with innovative solutions.