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Principal Platform Engineer || Agentic AI || Internal Developer Platform (IDP)IFS • Staines-upon-Thames, England, GB
Principal Platform Engineer || Agentic AI || Internal Developer Platform (IDP)

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

IFS • Staines-upon-Thames, England, GB
10 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

As a Principal Platform Engineer (IDP Focus), you will be the primary hands-on technical resource responsible for the implementation, configuration, and ongoing support of the IFS Internal Developer Platform. You will work within the Platform Engineering team to build the tooling and automation that enables product teams to self-serve infrastructure, services, and deployment pipelines on top of Kairos and Nexus.

This is a deeply technical, delivery-focused role. You will be building and operating production IDP capabilities, not advising on them.

  • Implement, configure, and maintain the IFS Internal Developer Platform (IDP) end-to-end
  • Build self-service workflows, service catalogue entries, scaffolders, and golden path templates
  • Integrate IDP tooling with Kairos (application framework) and Nexus (infrastructure and deployment)
  • Build and maintain CI/CD integration patterns for product team consumption
  • Create and maintain developer-facing documentation, guides, and enablement materials
  • Provide platform support and technical enablement to product development teams
  • Contribute to platform standards, architectural decisions, and the IDP roadmap
  • Identify and resolve platform reliability and performance issues
  • Collaborate closely with the Platform Lead and adjacent platform teams (Base Tech, Auth, Nexus)

Qualifications

Internal Developer Platforms

  • Hands-on experience building or operating IDPs in production environments
  • Practical experience with IDP tooling: Backstage, Port, Cortex, or comparable platforms
  • Experience implementing service catalogues, scaffolders, golden paths, and self-service infrastructure workflows
  • Familiarity with integrating IDPs into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native infrastructure

Engineering

  • Strong hands-on engineering capability across the NGA stack, or the ability to get there fast:Backend: GoFrontend: React (with Messaging / Streaming: Apache Kafka / RedPandaData: PostgreSQL
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps toolchains
  • Event-driven and event-based architecture patterns
  • Comfortable operating in a cloud-native environment: Kubernetes (AKS), containers, GitOps

Platform Engineering

  • Strong understanding of developer experience principles and platform thinking
  • Ability to operate across platform and product team boundaries

Experience supporting and enabling development teams in a platform capacity

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