Senior Platform Engineer
We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing team supporting a large-scale SaaS platform. This role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, and performance while helping drive a major cloud-native transition to Azure and Kubernetes.
You will work closely with engineering teams to modernise infrastructure, automate operations, and ensure highly observable and resilient systems in a production environment handling sensitive data.
This role is suited to engineers who have built platforms and developer infrastructure and who enjoy solving complex technical problems in production environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and build platform capabilities on Azure and Kubernetes
- Support cloud migration and containerisation initiatives
- Improve reliability, observability, and platform performance
- Automate infrastructure using Pulumi and Ansible
- Work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling
- Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews
- Contribute to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the team
Required Experience
- Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience running production workloads
- Commercial experience working with Microsoft Azure
- Experience building or developing internal platforms
- Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
- Linux administration and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
- Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
- Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi preferred)
Desirable
- Software development background (C#, Go, TypeScript, Python)
- Experience with Ansible
- Go development experience
- Experience in regulated environments
- Familiarity with Windows / IIS environments
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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