Platform Engineer/SRE - Hands-on Coding

Job Title:Platform Engineer/SRE - Hands-on Coding
Location: Sheffield - 3 days per week in the office
Salary/Rate: Up to £425 per day inside IR35
Start Date: 01/06/2026
Job Type: Contract until the end of the year

Company Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading financial services clients! They are currently looking for a skilled Platform Engineer/SRE with strong hands-on coding experience to join their team for a contract until the end of the year.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

This role sits within the Central Platform organisation spanning:
Platform Engineering & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Developer Tooling and Integration
The position focuses on building, operating, and sustaining resilient platform services that support large-scale engineering teams. While this is not a full-stack developer role, strong hands-on coding capability is essential.

• Design, build, and operate reliable, resilient platform services.
• Contribute actively to hands-on coding on a daily basis.
• Support and improve platform reliability, performance, and scalability.
• Apply SRE principles to ensure availability, resilience, and efficient recovery.
• Participate in and support incident management, including diagnosis and restoration.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on developer tooling and platform adoption.

Required Skills/Experience
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Strong hands-on coding experience, used daily.
• Proficiency in at least one high-level language such as Python, Java, Node.js, or similar.
• Solid understanding of microservices architecture and how distributed systems operate.
• Strong knowledge of:
• HTTP / REST
• Load balancing concepts
• Service-to-service communication
• Experience in Platform Engineering and/or SRE roles, with a focus on:
• Resilience
• Availability
• Fault tolerance
• Service reliability
• Good understanding of how web services operate at scale.
• Comfortable operating in production environments.
• Practical, hands-on, and delivery-focused.
• Able to think holistically about systems, not just individual components.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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