Platform Engineer
Summary
Build and maintain a scalable Kubernetes-based platform for clients using Azure, AKS, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines, with observability via Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry.
Salary: £54,000 - 60,900 per year
Requirements:- Strong commercial experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which is essential
- Experience with Kubernetes platform engineering in production environments
- Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Experience with Docker, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with Linux and Bash scripting
- Experience with Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
- Experience with Kubernetes networking and service mesh technologies
- Experience operating, troubleshooting and automating production platforms
- Experience owning technical implementation decisions rather than simply delivering against architectural designs
- Confidence working independently on complex engineering challenges
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience supporting, coaching or influencing engineering teams to adopt modern cloud engineering practices
- A collaborative approach to working alongside architects while retaining ownership of technical delivery
- Experience with Cilium, Istio, ArgoCD or Flux, Kafka or Redpanda, Helm and Kustomize, Python automation, or Policy as Code tools such as OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno is advantageous
- Build, operate and continually enhance Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Take ownership of technical implementation decisions and platform engineering best practice
- Design, build and manage Azure infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Develop and maintain GitOps CI/CD pipelines
- Manage Kubernetes networking, service mesh and gateway technologies
- Improve platform observability using Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
- Maintain platform security, resilience and automation
- Troubleshoot production platform issues and drive continuous improvement
- Work closely with architects to turn high-level designs into robust technical solutions
- Support and mentor engineering teams in adopting modern Azure and cloud-native engineering practices
- AI
- ArgoCD
- Azure
- Bash
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Docker
- GitOps
- Grafana
- Helm
- Istio
- Support
- Kafka
- Kubernetes
- Kustomize
- Linux
- OpenTelemetry
- Prometheus
- Python
- Security
- Terraform
- AWS
- DevOps
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We are a prestigious organisation offering a 12-month fixed-term Platform Engineer role in a hybrid London setup, with two days per week in the office. We offer a salary of up to £61,000, an exceptional pension scheme, generous holiday allowance, excellent annual leave entitlement, and long-term career development on a greenfield strategic transformation programme. You will join a collaborative, high-performing engineering team and help shape a modern Azure and Kubernetes cloud-native platform supporting AI, automation and integration services across a large enterprise environment.
last updated 32 week of 2026