Senior Cloud-Native Software Engineer / Platform Engineer

Salary: £50,000 - 90,000 per year

Requirements:

• 10+ years experience in software or cloud-native engineering, including at least three years working with Kubernetes or AKS.
• Expert-level experience developing and operating containerised applications.
• Strong commercial development experience with .NET and C#.
• Hands-on experience with AKS, Kubernetes resources, Helm or equivalent packaging, container registries and workload troubleshooting.
• Strong experience building CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
• Practical experience implementing GitOps using Flux v2.
• Experience with Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes and hybrid or distributed application environments.
• Good knowledge of Terraform and infrastructure-as-code principles.
• Experience applying DevSecOps controls, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning, dependency management and secure software development practices.
• Experience integrating applications with Azure PaaS and data services, which may include IoT Hub, Service Bus, Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, storage, SQL, APIs and identity services.
• Understanding of Azure networking, identity and security concepts, including Entra ID, managed identities, private endpoints and role-based access control.
• Strong diagnostic skills across application, container, Kubernetes and network layers.
• Preferred certifications: Certified Kubernetes Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Application Developer, Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert.

Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain and support cloud-native applications and microservices deployed to AKS and distributed edge Kubernetes environments.
• Design and build secure, production-quality services using .NET and C#, with Python used where appropriate for automation, data processing and integration.
• Containerise applications and manage their configuration, dependencies, deployment and lifecycle across cloud and edge environments.
• Develop and maintain GitHub Actions pipelines covering build, test, security scanning, packaging, release and deployment.
• Implement GitOps-based deployment and configuration management using Flux v2.
• Support Azure Arc-enabled Kubernetes and customer-managed Kubernetes platforms such as K3s, Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent.
• Create and maintain infrastructure and application deployment automation using Terraform and associated scripting.
• Develop APIs, integration components and event-driven services connecting Azure PaaS, IoT, data and operational systems.
• Implement automated testing, code-quality controls, dependency management and DevSecOps practices throughout the software lifecycle.
• Establish effective application observability using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards and alerts.
• Investigate and resolve application, container, pipeline and deployment issues across distributed cloud and edge environments.
• Produce clear technical documentation, operational procedures and support handover materials.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, network, security, data, architecture and electrical transmission domain specialists.

Technologies:

• AI
• Architect
• Azure
• C#
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• GitHub
• GitOps
• Helm
• IoT
• Support
• Kubernetes
• Network
• OpenShift
• PaaS
• Python
• SQL
• Security
• Terraform
• microservices
• ASP.NET
• Grafana
• Machine Learning
• MQTT
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus

More:

We are developing the Intelligent Substation programme, a portfolio of cloud and edge solutions that securely acquires and contextualises operational technology and substation data for asset monitoring, condition assessment, operational analysis and future AI-enabled capabilities. We are seeking a senior, hands-on Software Engineer to join a small multidisciplinary team maintaining, supporting and further developing these solutions. This role is highly practical and spans application code, containers, deployment pipelines and production environments, with a strong focus on cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps and the integration of cloud and operational technology platforms.

last updated 33 week of 2026