Platform Engineer (SC/Kubernetes)
Platform Engineer (SC/Kubernetes) - Contract role - Hybrid working - £Competitive
Synergize Consulting are now hiring for a Platform Engineer to work at a leading consultancy client on a contract basis.
The successful candidate will work within a large public sector account, and will play a key role in developing and optimising container platforms that enable engineering teams to deploy and manage applications efficiently and reliably. Working collaboratively with developers, architects and other technical stakeholders, you will help drive automation, improve platform performance and champion cloud engineering best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy and manage Kubernetes clusters using Amazon EKS.
- Build and maintain secure, scalable and highly available Kubernetes platforms across development, test and production environments.
- Implement best practices for cluster security, networking, resource allocation and performance.
- Develop and maintain Kubernetes upgrade, resilience and disaster recovery strategies.
- Work with containerisation technologies such as Docker, Podman and OpenShift.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and AWS CDK.
- Automate cluster provisioning, configuration, upgrades and scaling.
- Integrate Kubernetes deployments with CI/CD pipelines using push-based and pull-based deployment approaches.
- Implement and manage GitOps solutions, such as Argo CD and Flux, to streamline platform configuration and application deployment.
- Promote automation to improve consistency, efficiency and reliability.
- Monitor and optimise platform performance, availability, cost and resource utilisation.
- Implement Kubernetes and cloud security best practices, including role-based access control (RBAC), network policies and secrets management
- Work closely with development and engineering teams to advise on containerisation, deployment and cloud architecture
Experience required:
- Extensive experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure or a similar engineering role.
- Strong hands-on expertise in Kubernetes and Amazon EKS within a public cloud environment.
- Proven experience designing, deploying and managing secure, scalable and highly available Kubernetes clusters.
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes security, networking, upgrades, disaster recovery and resilience.
- Experience with containerisation technologies, particularly Docker.
- Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Experience automating infrastructure and operational tasks using tools such as Ansible and Scripting languages including Python or Ruby.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control and DevOps practices.
- Experience with public cloud platforms, particularly AWS, and a good understanding of cloud architecture and services.
- Knowledge of monitoring, logging and observability tools.
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to a range of audiences.
- A proactive, team-oriented approach and a commitment to continuous learning and improvement
- Experience implementing GitOps solutions using Argo CD and/or Flux (desirable)
- Experience with managed Kubernetes services such as AKS or GKE (desirable)
- Due to the nature of the client, it would be an advantage for candidates to hold, or be eligible and willing to undergo, a certain level of security clearance (SC)
If you are looking to take the next exciting step in your IT career, please send in your CV for immediate consideration