Platform Engineer

itecopeople
Charing Cross, United Kingdom
yesterday

Role details

Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Compensation
£ 61K

Job location

Charing Cross, United Kingdom

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security
Artificial Intelligence
Azure
Bash
Cloud Computing
Continuous Integration
Linux
Python
Prometheus
Datadog
Cloud Platform System
Istio
System Availability
Delivery Pipeline
Grafana
Event Driven Architecture
Git Flow
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Kafka
Azure
Api Gateway
Terraform
Docker

Job description

An exciting opportunity working on a greenfield Kubernetes platform built using modern engineering practices across Azure, GitOps, service mesh, observability and event-driven architecture. The Role

You will be responsible for building, operating and improving a shared Kubernetes platform used by application, AI and integration engineering teams. Hands-on role covering infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, CI/CD, networking, observability and platform reliability.

Working closely with architects and engineering teams shaping the future of the platform while helping maintain high standards across automation, security, scalability and operational excellence., * Build and operate Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments

  • Manage cloud infrastructure using Terraform and ARM Templates
  • Support GitOps-based CI/CD and deployment pipelines
  • Operate observability tooling including Grafana and OpenTelemetry
  • Maintain platform networking, service mesh and API gateway layers
  • Support event streaming infrastructure and platform reliability
  • Participate in incident response and platform operations
  • Contribute to platform engineering standards and best practices

Requirements

Candidates to have strong experience across:

  • Kubernetes platform engineering and cloud-native infrastructure
  • Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
  • Docker, CI/CD and GitOps workflows
  • Linux, Bash Scripting and platform automation
  • Observability tooling including Grafana and Prometheus
  • Kubernetes networking, security and service mesh technologies

Experience with the following would be highly beneficial:

  • Cilium
  • Istio/Service Mesh
  • ArgoCD or Flux
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Kafka or Redpanda
  • Python automation tooling
  • Policy as Code/Kubernetes security tooling

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