← All issues Platform Engineering Jobs + Tools Digest — 2026-10-09
TL;DR
Jobs
24 platform-engineering roles this week, with Cloud Engineer (3) and Site Reliability Engineer (3) trending. Highlights include IT Infrastructure Engineer at BlueGeko , posted 1 day ago — Headquarters: London URL: http://bluegeko.com IT Infrastructure Engineer (Full-Time / Remote) We are looking for an experienced IT Infrastructure Engineer to manage, maintain, and improve our company's IT systems, networ… and Security Software Engineer, IAM at Vercel , posted 1 day ago — Headquarters: Remote - United States About Vercel: Vercel is the agentic infrastructure company, freeing people and agents to ship what's next. For more than a decade we've helped builders move from idea to production wi….
Tools & News
This week's roundup features 10 tools & news items, 1 of which mentions AI, with "kubecon" as a recurring theme.
Jobs
IT Infrastructure Engineer at BlueGeko
Source: WeWorkRemotely Security Software Engineer, IAM at Vercel
Source: WeWorkRemotely Director, Renewals at Abnormal
Source: WeWorkRemotely Cloud Engineer at BeyondTrust
Source: WeWorkRemotely Principal Solutions Consultant at PagerDuty
Source: WeWorkRemotely Engineering Manager, Cloud Engineering at LaunchDarkly
Source: WeWorkRemotely Enterprise Sales Engineer - FED at Datadog
Source: WeWorkRemotely Senior Manager, Solutions Architect at Vercel
Source: WeWorkRemotely Security Engineer, Cloud at Vercel
Source: WeWorkRemotely Senior Software Engineer, Application Security at Discord
Source: WeWorkRemotely Principal Infrastructure Architect: Data Platform at ZoomInfo Technologies LLC
Source: WeWorkRemotely CPS Solution Architect at Collibra
Source: WeWorkRemotely DevOps Engineer (Remote) at thehivecareers.co
Source: WeWorkRemotely Developer Advocate - Service Management EMEA at Datadog
Source: WeWorkRemotely Software Engineer at CircleCI
Source: WeWorkRemotely Bilingual Channel Account Manager, Arabic (MEA) - UK at Keeper Security
Source: WeWorkRemotely Developer Advocate - Service Management at Datadog
Source: WeWorkRemotely Analista de Infraestrutura Pleno DevOps at Melhor Envio
Source: RemoteOK — python, docker, nosql, git, typescript, devops Manager Platform Engineering at Natera
Source: RemoteOK — manager, cloud, engineering, devops, senior, ai, lead Senior Platform Engineer at saas.group
Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, devops, architecture, ai, reliability, ops Senior Site Reliability Engineer AI Infrastructure at Andromeda Cluster
Source: RemoteOK — ai, devops, engineer, ops, reliability, senior Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Pave Bank
Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, reliability, devops, gcp, kubernetes, docker, python, go, grafana Senior Cloud Engineer at DV Trading
Source: RemoteOK — senior, cloud, engineer, devops, aws, gcp, crypto, security Senior Site Reliability Engineer at UJET
Source: RemoteOK — senior, engineer, reliability, devops, ops, cloud, architecture, system, lead
Tools & News Roundup
UK Tech Contract Day Rates — 2026 Snapshot
Sector / specialism
Typical day rate (2026)
IT (median across all disciplines)
£576/day
Cloud and infrastructure
£550–£600/day
Software engineering
£500–£580/day
Product management
£490–£560/day
Data and analytics
£480–£530/day
AI and automation
£460–£520/day
Senior IT specialists (AI/ML, cloud, security architects)
£700–£1,200/day
AI-skilled candidates command a 17–26% premium over baseline rates in comparable roles.
Sources: ContractorUK market rates data; Morgan McKinley UK Technology Contract Salary Guide 2026; ITJobsWatch contract rate data (September 2026).