Era4
Identity & Platform Engineer (Interim)
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Era4 Develops, Owns, and Operates AI Infrastructure
Era4 develops, owns, and operates AI infrastructure across the UK, powered by renewable energy. Converting legacy industrial and energy sites into modern data-centre facilities, Era4 is combining brownfield regeneration opportunities with cleaner, efficient, scalable compute capacity for healthcare, research, finance, enterprise, and public-sector organisations.
Initial 3 Month Contract
- July start date
- Competitive day rate
Role Summary
The Identity & Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the core platform services that provide:
- Kubernetes platform services
- Sovereign identity management
- Federation and authentication services
- Privileged access management
- Secrets management
- Customer identity integration
- Platform security and governance
The successful candidate will play a key role in delivering a Zero Trust, sovereign cloud platform built around: FreeIPA, Teleport, authentik, Bitwarden, Kubernetes.
Key Responsibilities
Identity & Access Management Engineering
- Design, implement, and operate the sovereign identity platform supporting workforce, administrative, and customer identity domains.
- Implement and maintain FreeIPA as the authoritative administrative identity platform.
- Deploy, configure, and operate authentik for customer federation, SAML, and OIDC integration.
- Implement and maintain Teleport as the privileged access management platform.
- Design and maintain RBAC models across Kubernetes, Rafay, and supporting platform services.
- Integrate phishing-resistant MFA technologies including WebAuthn and FIDO2 security keys.
- Implement identity lifecycle management processes including onboarding, access reviews, and deprovisioning.
- Support customer identity federation onboarding and integration activities.
- Contribute to the ongoing evolution of the platform's Zero Trust architecture.
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Security, Governance & Zero Trust
- Implement Zero Trust security controls across platform services.
- Design and maintain Kubernetes RBAC and tenant isolation controls.
- Implement privileged access governance using Teleport.
- Maintain audit logging, compliance evidence collection, and security monitoring capabilities.
- Support security reviews, threat modelling, and risk assessments.
- Implement security hardening standards across Kubernetes, Linux, and supporting infrastructure.
- Participate in security incident response and root cause analysis activities.
- Maintain compliance with security and governance requirements.
Secrets & Certificate Management
- Operate Bitwarden and Bitwarden Secrets Manager platforms.
- Manage operational credentials, API keys, and automation secrets.
- Implement secure secret distribution patterns for platform and application workloads.
- Support certificate lifecycle management and PKI integration.
- Maintain operational processes for break-glass credential governance and recovery.
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Required Experience & Skills
- Hands-on experience operating production Kubernetes environments.
- Solid Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Knowledge of designing and operating Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions.
- Experience with LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
- Previous experience implementing authentication, federation, and RBAC solutions.
- Skilled in operating infrastructure and platform security services.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tooling.
- Knowledge implementing monitoring, logging, and observability solutions.
- Solid understanding of Zero Trust security principles.
- Experience with GitOps practices and cloud-native operational models.
- Proven incident management and root cause analysis experience.
Why Join Era4
You’ll be joining a mission-driven start-up building critical national infrastructure, where operational excellence directly enables growth. This role offers high visibility with leadership, real autonomy, and the chance to shape how a next-generation company operates at scale.
Diversity & Inclusion
Era4 is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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