Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer

12-Month Fixed-Term Contract | Hybrid Working (2 Days per Week in London)| salary £54,000-£60900pa

A prestigious client seeks an experienced Platform Engineer to join a high-impact engineering team delivering a modern cloud-native platform that underpins AI and automation services across a large-scale enterprise environment.

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.

Key Responsibilities

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

Skills & Experience

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 technologiesExperience 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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