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, Git Ops, service mesh, observability and event-driven architecture.

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 Git Ops-based CI/CD and deployment pipelines
• Operate observability tooling including Grafana and Open Telemetry
• Maintain platform networking, service mesh and API gateway layers
• Support event streaming infrastructure and platform reliability
• Participate in incident response and platform operationsn>
• Contribute to platform engineering standards and best practices

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 Git Ops 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
• Open Telemetry
• Kafka or Redpanda
• Python automation tooling
• Policy as Code / Kubernetes security tooling