Platform Engineer

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract

Hybrid - London (2 days per week)

Salary up to £61,000 + Exceptional Pension & Generous Holiday Allowance

We're working with a prestigious organisation seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to help build and operate a modern cloud-native platform that underpins AI, automation and integration services across a large-scale enterprise environment.

This is an opportunity to join a greenfield engineering programme where you'll play a key role in shaping a Kubernetes platform built on Microsoft Azure using modern DevOps and platform engineering practices. You'll work with cutting-edge technologies in a collaborative engineering team, helping deliver a secure, scalable and highly reliable platform that will support a major strategic transformation programme.

The Role

You'll be responsible for building, operating and continuously improving a shared Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) platform used by application, AI and integration engineering teams. Working within a collaborative engineering team, you'll help deliver a secure, scalable and highly reliable platform through automation, Infrastructure as Code and GitOps.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Build, operate and enhance Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Develop and support GitOps CI/CD pipelines
  • Manage Kubernetes networking, service mesh and gateway technologies
  • Support observability using Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
  • Maintain platform security, reliability and automation
  • Participate in incident response and continuous platform improvement
  • Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to drive platform best practice

What We're Looking For

You'll have strong commercial experience with:

  • Kubernetes and cloud-native platform engineering
  • Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Docker, GitOps and CI/CD pipelines
  • Linux and Bash scripting
  • Grafana, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry
  • Kubernetes networking and service mesh technologies
  • Production platform operations and troubleshooting

Experience with any of the following would be advantageous:

  • Cilium
  • Istio
  • ArgoCD or Flux
  • Kafka or Redpanda
  • Helm and Kustomize
  • Python automation
  • Policy as Code (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno)

What's on Offer

  • Salary up to £61,000
  • Very generous pension scheme
  • Excellent annual leave entitlement
  • Hybrid working (2 days per week in London)
  • Opportunity to shape a greenfield cloud-native platform
  • Modern Azure and Kubernetes technology stack
  • Collaborative, high-performing engineering team
  • Long-term strategic programme with excellent career development

If you're passionate about Kubernetes, Azure and building reliable cloud-native platforms, we'd love to hear from you.

To progress matters please send your CV Laura at lramm@itecopeople.co.uk

Services advertised are those of an agency.

Job Details

Company
itecopeople
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
Hybrid / Remote Options
Posted