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Principal Platform Engineer || Agentic AI || Internal Developer Platform (IDP) at IFS1

Department: Research and DevelopmentSeniority in posting: senior

Setup
Hybrid
Location
Borough of Spelthorne, England
Type
Full-time
Level
staff+
Posted

Description

IFS is hiring a Principal Platform Engineer focused on its Internal Developer Platform. The role owns the implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of the IDP, including self-service workflows, service catalogues, scaffolders, golden-path templates, and integrations with Kairos and Nexus. Responsibilities also include CI/CD integration, developer enablement, documentation, platform reliability, and collaboration with platform and product teams. The role requires hands-on production IDP experience, familiarity with Backstage, Port, or Cortex, and strong engineering skills across Go, React, Next.js, Kafka or RedPanda, PostgreSQL, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, containers, GitOps, and event-driven architecture. Hybrid work is supported.

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