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Platform Engineer

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Posted on Jun 1, 2026 by CV-Library
London, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
£54k - £60.9k Annual
Full-Time
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

To progress matters please send your CV Laura at

Services advertised are those of an agency

Reference: 225181116

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CV-Library

Platform Engineer

CV-Library

Posted on Jun 1, 2026 by CV-Library

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London, United Kingdom
IT
Immediate Start
£54k - £60.9k Annual
Full-Time
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

To progress matters please send your CV Laura at

Services advertised are those of an agency
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Reference: 225181116

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