Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Working at CreateFuture

CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. We work alongside organisations such as PayPal, adidas, NatWest, FanDuel and Money Saving Expert, building digital products and services that make a difference while always putting people first.

We're a team of creators. We write code, shape delivery, build go-to-market strategies, develop AI solutions and create the practices that support our people. We work side by side with our clients, challenging what's not working and helping them to build the future. Our commitment to craft, quality, and culture has helped us scale to over 600 people in just a few years.

• 35 days leave (including bank holidays).
• Private medical insurance.
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave.
• 40 hours of paid learning and development.

Join us on our journey. Let's create tomorrow, together, today.

A hands on senior engineer embedded in the client's platform team, responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of their Kubernetes based infrastructure on AWS. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering and DevOps, owning the day to day health of containerised workloads while driving improvements to delivery pipelines, GitOps practices, and managed service configuration. The right candidate is comfortable working autonomously in a mature, opinionated stack and can influence without authority across engineering teams.

• Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize based environment configuration.
• Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments.
• Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response.
• Maintain and extend infrastructure as code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices.
• Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications.
• Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python based services.
• Identify and address platform level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements.
• Support on call for the EKS platform.

• Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations.
• GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize.
• AWS managed services, hands on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments.
• Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure as code across multiple environments.
• GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads.
• Application layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers.
• Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis.

We trust people to do their best work. That means flexibility over rigid rules, impact over activity, and real investment in your growth both professionally and personally. You'll be part of a supportive, and friendly culture, surrounded by smart, curious people who care deeply about what they do.

We offer flexible working, including hybrid and remote options. Our office hubs are located in Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester, London and Bulgaria, with occasional travel to client sites or CreateFuture offices when needed.

We trust you to manage your time balancing collaboration with client time and focused work. What matters is the impact you have, not how busy you look.

Candidates for this role must be eligible to live and work in the UK.