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
You'll have strong commercial experience with:
To progress matters please send your CV Laura at lramm@itecopeople.co.uk
Services advertised are those of an agency.
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
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
- Cilium
- Istio
- ArgoCD or Flux
- Kafka or Redpanda
- Helm and Kustomize
- Python automation
- Policy as Code (OPA/Gatekeeper or Kyverno)
- 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
To progress matters please send your CV Laura at lramm@itecopeople.co.uk
Services advertised are those of an agency.