Senior Platform Engineer
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing platform 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.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and deliver cloud migration and containerisation initiatives
- Operate and improve production monitoring, alerting, and system reliability
- Automate infrastructure provisioning using Pulumi and Ansible
- Participate in incident response and on-call rotations
- Lead blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement efforts
- Collaborate with product engineering teams on observability and performance
Key Skills
- Strong experience with Azure cloud architecture
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience
- Pulumi experience
- Experience troubleshooting distributed systems
- Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Graylog
- Linux systems administration
- Scripting with PowerShell, Bash, or Python
- Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Redis
- Strong documentation and communication skills
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.