Platform Engineer - Kubernetes / Azure

Keystone Recruitment Partners Ltd
United Kingdom
Last week
£450 – £550 pd

Salary

£450 – £550 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
Remote
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Posted
22 May 2026 (Last week)

About This Role

We are looking for an experienced contractor to support the design, delivery, and operation of enterprise cloud-native services. The role will focus on Kubernetes-based platforms running on Microsoft Azure, including service mesh, application deployment, observability, security, and production support.

Key responsibilities:

* Build, configure, and support Kubernetes environments on Azure, including AKS.

* Deploy and manage Spring Boot applications in containerized environments.

* Work with Istio or similar service mesh technologies for traffic management, security, and observability.

* Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

* Troubleshoot platform, networking, deployment, and application runtime issues.

* Collaborate with enterprise architecture, security, and operations teams to meet governance and compliance requirements.

* Contribute to documentation, operational runbooks, and knowledge transfer.

Required experience:

* Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Azure cloud services.

* Experience with Istio, ingress, service discovery, and cloud-native networking.

* Good understanding of Spring Boot application deployment and runtime considerations.

* Familiarity with enterprise IT environments, including change control, security standards, incident management, and stakeholder governance.

* Experience with CI/CD tooling, container registries, monitoring, logging, and secrets management.

* Ability to work independently and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Desirable experience:

* Terraform, Helm, GitOps, Azure DevOps, or GitHub Actions.

* Observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or Azure Monitor.

* Financial services or other regulated enterprise environments

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