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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Staff Platform Engineer (Azure, Kubernetes) - **Company:** Confused - **Location:** Cardiff, UK (Remote available) - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Fault Tolerance, Software Architecture, Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Azure AKS, Software Version Control - **Published:** July 30, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c5cb00d8569c013d ## About the Role * A track record of getting engineering and product teams to adopt shared platforms and standards, even when it changes how they work. This is a leadership role, not a pure individual-contributor one. * Built and operated highly available, scalable, consumer-facing systems in both large and small agile teams. * Designed and built cost-optimised cloud platforms from the ground up, preferably Azure, on well-architected principles. * Deep experience running containers at scale on Kubernetes, ideally Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). * Strong observability practice, for platform and cluster health and as a product shipped to teams. ## Description Join the Platform Engineering team at Confused.com and help build the internal developer platform, CI/CD, and reliability tooling that lets our engineering teams ship change quickly, safely, and securely., * Lead and evangelise. Set platform direction and take the organisation with you. Champion the platform offering to engineers and product owners, justify the standards you introduce, and absorb the challenge that comes with moving people towards a shared, opinionated platform. * Rigour: Use logs, metrics, and cost data to decide what to build and to prove whether it worked, not only to monitor what already runs. * Ownership: Hold ownership of technical strategy and decisions across the platform, its domains, and its systems. Make those decisions collaboratively and back them with data. * Delivery: Own the stack end to end against business requirements. Build efficient CI/CD pipelines and robust DevOps practices. * Reliability: Run containers at scale on Kubernetes. Keep systems performant, scalable, and reliable, and design them to tolerate failure. * Collaboration: Work directly with different engineering teams so your tools solve real problems, not assumed ones. * Culture: Share what you know and challenge what you disagree with in technical forums, working groups, and all hands. * AI-assisted delivery: use AI development tools such as Claude to build and ship in languages the team is less experienced in, and set the standard for how to do that well and safely. What you are accountable for * Objective setting, feature ideation, development, and measurement. * Architectural decisions and designs for the platform, domains, and systems. * Defining, evolving, and applying team processes. * Building CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices. * Mentoring and coaching engineers, and presenting what you learn back to the wider organisation., * A broad grasp of platform, developer experience (DevEx) and SRE across the whole delivery lifecycle: performance, analytics and security, not one narrow speciality. * Rolled out SLOs across an organisation to drive error budgets and alerting, built fault-tolerant systems, and comfortable with incident and problem management. * Fluent with AI development tools such as Claude, and able to set the standard for using them well and safely to build in unfamiliar languages. * Learns unfamiliar technology fast and grasps it strategically, rather than plateauing at surface level. * Command of the software development lifecycle: testing, version control, branching, and deployment. * Built APIs or CLIs that solve internal problems and give engineers self-service tooling. * Pragmatic and outcome-focused: you ship daily, own your decisions, and treat feedback and failed experiments as how you learn. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Azure-Well Architected Framework - designing mission critical workloads in practice](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1529-azure-well-architected-framework-designing-mission-critical-workloads-in-practice) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [Understanding Kubernetes in a visual way](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100085-understanding-kubernetes-in-a-visual-way) - [Crew Management System for Airlines: Plan duties for pilots & flight attendants worldwide](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1444-crew-management-system-for-airlines-plan-duties-for-pilots-flight-attendants-worldwide) - [Instant KAI Sandboxes with vCluster: Multi-Tenant, Multi-Scheduler GPU Sharing](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100333-instant-kai-sandboxes-with-vcluster-multi-tenant-multi-scheduler-gpu-sharing) ## Related Articles - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs)