VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer, £500 per day outside IR35

Bench IT require an experienced VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer to join a large organisation starting ASAP. The VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud native applications and platform capabilities on Kubernetes running on VMware (eg, TKG/VKS). The role focuses on enabling scalable, resilient, and secure container platforms while supporting development teams through automation, tooling, and best practices. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, application development, and DevOps/SRE.

• Kubernetes & Containers

• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Experience with On Prem Kubernetes platforms (VKS/TKG preferred).
• Solid understanding of container technologies (Containers, container runtimes).
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, storage, and ingress controllers.
• Strong Linux OS experience.

• Automation & Tooling

• Familiarity with modern cluster provisioning such as CAPI and cluster management via Gitops.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• CI/CD tooling experience (eg, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Helm or equivalent Kubernetes packaging tools.
• Scripting experience (Python, Go or similar).