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# Cloud Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Howden Joinery Ltd
- **Location:** Northampton, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Backup Devices, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Disaster Recovery, Domain Name System (DNS), Fault Tolerance, Identity and Access Management, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Release Management, Azure Active Directory, Fortify (Software), BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM), Akamai, Selenium, Software Deployment, SonarQube, Cloud Platform System, Cloud Monitoring, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Git, Containerization, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Performance Monitor, Cloud Migration, Terraform, Api Management, Docker, Key Vault
- **Published:** August 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/cloud-platform-engineer/57280703

## About the Role

You must bring at least 5 years experience in:

 * Azure Cloud
 * IaC (Terraform)
 * Build and management of Kubernetes environments
 * Azure DevOps (or other CI/CD GIT platforms)
 * Cloud Security and Connectivity (Key Vault, vNet, DNS, Firewalls, Express Route / Direct Connect, VPN, GTM, NSG)
 * infrastructure-as-code and Configuration management tools e.g. Terraform
 * Practical experience with containerization and clustering technologies i.e., Docker/Kubernetes.
 * Building automated CI/CD pipelines with tools such as SonarQube, Fortify, Selenium, etc.
 * Be an excellent communicator, able to influence decision makers and work successfully in cross-functional teams

Desirable skills include:

 * Azure Active Directory (Identity Management, Service Principles, Security Groups, Role Management, MFA)
 * Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF)
 * API Management
 * Cloud Monitoring
 * CDN (Akamai preferably)
 * High Availability (Zones and Regions, Service Recovery

## Description

* You will be responsible for creating, maintaining and deploying secure, high-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale via on-premise and cloud-native architectures for development, testing and production environments.
 * Developing and maintain solutions for operational administration, system/data backup, disaster recovery and security/performance monitoring
 * Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments to maximize efficiency and optimise for flow therefore allowing the delivery teams to deploy new code daily.
 * Help to develop policies, standards, governance, and related guidance for teams in using the CI/CD pipelines.
 * Work with architects to design scalable infrastructure and systems for complex applications.
 * Collaborate with Release Manager in the release planning, by identifying deployment steps and other activities that must be undertaken prior and post deployment;
 * Responsible for developing and supporting container-based solutions using Kubernetes/Docker for Azure Cloud.


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