DevOps Platform Engineer
Possible
Sponsorship likelihood
This employer issued few or no visas recently
£52,300
Going rate
Skilled Worker going rate
This role may qualify for a Skilled Worker visa
SOC 2139 is an eligible occupation, but we are only 33% sure that is the right code. Stott and May is a licensed sponsor, so if the code fits, the role should qualify. Check the occupation eligibility rules against what the job actually involves.
We pick the code from the advert's text, so it is our best guess, not the employer's. Each code it could be has its own likelihood:
- Possible 2139 (Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified) · 33% match
- Possible 2133 (IT business analysts, architects and systems designers) · 28% match
- Possible 2134 (Programmers and software development professionals) · 27% match
New graduate or PhD holder? Pick one of the lower rates.
What each route needs for this job
| Occupation code | New entrant 70% of going rate | STEM PhD 80% of going rate | Relevant PhD 90% of going rate | Standard rate 100% of going rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2139 Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified Most likely code | £36,600 Clears | £41,800 Clears | £47,100 Clears | £52,300 Clears |
2133 IT business analysts, architects and systems designers Also possible | £38,400 Clears | £43,900 Clears | £49,400 Clears | £54,900 Clears |
2134 Programmers and software development professionals Also possible | £38,300 Clears | £43,700 Clears | £49,200 Clears | £54,700 Clears |
We use the lowest threshold across the plausible codes. Likelihood is Possible at most when the pay clears only a lower rate, or only under a less likely code. A mark is for the top of the advertised pay. How the Home Office picks the code
About the role
Senior DevOps / Platform Engineering
Location: Canary Wharf, London (Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite)
Day Rate: £600 per day Inside IR35
About the Role
We are looking for a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineering specialist to support the reliability, resilience and operational performance of large-scale platforms within a regulated environment.
This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, production incident management, automation and reliability engineering. You will drive improvements across platform operations, embed reliability throughout the software development lifecycle and apply agentic AI to incident, problem, change and risk management.
Key Responsibilities
- Take ownership of technical outcomes, drive engineering quality, mentor colleagues and share expertise across teams.
- Collaborate with product, platform, operations and security teams to embed reliability into the software development lifecycle.
- Define and track KPIs for reliability, performance and operational efficiency.
- Lead production incident management, including detection, triage, escalation and resolution, working with development and support teams.
- Manage major incident response for critical outages, ensuring rapid mitigation and clear stakeholder communication.
- Conduct blameless post-incident reviews and drive actionable follow-ups and systemic improvements.
- Establish runbooks, playbooks and operational readiness standards, continuously improving incident response processes and tooling.
- Drive AI-assisted incident and problem management, change management and risk management across ITSM activities.
- Automate operational processes, including incident response, failover, scaling and recovery.
- Implement self-healing mechanisms using auto-remediation, event-driven workflows and AI/ML-assisted operations where applicable.
Skills & Experience
- Proven technical experience in SRE, DevOps and/or Platform Engineering within large-scale, regulated environments.
- Deep technical expertise in on-premises and AWS cloud-native architecture and systems design.
- Strong implementation experience with observability tools and frameworks, including Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK/EFK stacks, CloudWatch, Datadog or similar.
- In-depth experience in incident management and production operations.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, automation, scripting and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with Python, Go, Ansible, Terraform or similar tools.
- Demonstrable application of agentic AI engineering in observability, incident management and automated recovery.
- Strong understanding of networking, security and reliability engineering principles.
- Experience defining and implementing SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.
- Experience with AWS services such as EKS/ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Aurora and S3.
- Experience with SQL Server, Sybase and PostgreSQL, including Aurora.
- Experience supporting or developing applications using Unix/Linux, Java, C#/.NET and Python.
Preferred Experience
- Financial services or other data-intensive, regulated industries.
- Multi-region AWS architecture, high availability and mission-critical applications.
- Chaos engineering practices and resilience testing.
- AIOps and intelligent automation frameworks.
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Where this offer sits in the market
Information technology professionals not elsewhere classified (SOC 2139) · UK · ONS ASHE 2025 · basic pay · ~65k in sample- Middle half £38,740–66,768
- Median £52,104
- Going rate £52,300
- Threshold £41,700
- New entrant £36,600–47,100
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What salary is needed for this role to be eligible?
The offer must clear both the general threshold and the SOC 2139 going rate of £52,300. New-entrant and shortage discounts can lower it.