We're looking for a Azure 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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