iXceed Solutions
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Backend Platform Engineer
Location: London, UK
Work Model: Fully Onsite – 5 Days per Week
Contract: 6 Months Initially, with a strong possibility of extension
Experience: 6–14 years overall, with 6+ years relevant experience
Working Hours: 40 hours/week
Start Date: ASAP / Immediate
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced Backend Platform Engineer to join a major financial services technology programme in London.
The role sits across Platform Engineering, DevOps, Developer Experience, and Backend Engineering, with a strong focus on building and enhancing enterprise CI/CD platforms, integrating SDLC controls, and enabling development teams to deliver software in a secure, compliant, and controlled environment.
The successful candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Jenkins, Kubernetes, AWS, Java, Python, Docker, Helm, and CI/CD, together with an understanding of enterprise SDLC and change-management processes.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain backend platform engineering solutions.
- Build and enhance enterprise CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks.
- Manage Jenkins environments and develop reusable Jenkins pipeline libraries.
- Develop and support Java-based backend services and REST APIs.
- Implement and maintain containerized applications using Docker.
- Deploy and manage workloads on Kubernetes platforms.
- Develop and maintain Helm charts for Kubernetes deployments.
- Support Maven/Gradle-based Java application builds.
- Integrate enterprise control and compliance systems into SDLC pipelines.
- Implement SDLC and change-management controls within development and deployment processes.
- Support the introduction of new environments and technologies into existing SDLC processes.
- Enhance pipeline libraries to support compliant and standardized software delivery.
- Support onboarding of Product Engineering teams onto controls-compliant CI/CD pipelines.
- Troubleshoot build, deployment, environment, and pipeline issues.
- Develop automation using Python where required.
- Produce technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Work closely with engineering and platform teams in a highly regulated environment.
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Mandatory Technical Skills
- Java
- Python
- AWS
- Kubernetes
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Docker
- Helm
- Maven and/or Gradle
- REST APIs
- Backend / Microservices development
Good-to-Have Skills
- Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
- Groovy / Jenkins Pipeline scripting
- GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
- ArgoCD / GitOps
- Nexus / Artifactory
- SonarQube
- HashiCorp Vault
- AWS EKS
- Cloud-native architecture
- SDLC governance and controls
- Change-management processes
- Experience within banking, financial services, or other regulated environments
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