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, 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