We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing team supporting a large-scale SaaS platform. This role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, and performance while helping drive a major cloud-native transition to Azure and Kubernetes.
You will work closely with engineering teams to modernise infrastructure, automate operations, and ensure highly observable and resilient systems in a production environment handling sensitive data.
This role is suited to engineers who have built platforms and developer infrastructure and who enjoy solving complex technical problems in production environments.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and build platform capabilities on Azure and Kubernetes
* Support cloud migration and containerisation initiatives
* Improve reliability, observability, and platform performance
* Automate infrastructure using Pulumi and Ansible
* Work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling
* Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews
* Contribute to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the team
Required Experience
* Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience running production workloads
* Commercial experience working with Microsoft Azure
* Experience building or developing internal platforms
* Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
* Linux administration and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
* Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
* Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi preferred)
Desirable
* Software development background (C#, Go, TypeScript, Python)
* Experience with Ansible
* Go development experience
* Experience in regulated environments
* Familiarity with Windows / IIS environments
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.
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