Platform Engineer

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

Responsibilities:

• 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

Technologies:

• AI
• ArgoCD
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Docker
• GitOps
• Grafana
• Helm
• Istio
• Support
• Kafka
• Kubernetes
• Kustomize
• Linux
• OpenTelemetry
• Prometheus
• Python
• Security
• Terraform
• AWS
• DevOps

More:

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