We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing platform 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.
Key Responsibilities
* Design and deliver cloud migration and containerisation initiatives
* Operate and improve production monitoring, alerting, and system reliability
* Automate infrastructure provisioning using Pulumi and Ansible
* Participate in incident response and on-call rotations
* Lead blameless post-mortems and continuous improvement efforts
* Collaborate with product engineering teams on observability and performance
Key Skills
* Strong experience with Azure cloud architecture
* Hands-on Kubernetes experience
* Pulumi experience
* Experience troubleshooting distributed systems
* Monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Graylog
* Linux systems administration
* Scripting with PowerShell, Bash, or Python
* Experience with SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or Redis
* Strong documentation and communication skills
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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