Azure Platform Engineer: Cloud, IaC & Kubernetes Expert

Zenith Vehicles; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life Insurance

Critical Illness Cover

Dental and Health Cash Plans

Tech Scheme

Car Sacrifice Scheme

Cycle to Work Scheme

Season Ticket Loans

MyGPS personal development framework

Perks at Work discounts

Onsite GP

Employee Assistance Programme

Mental Health First Aiders

Sports and social clubs

Team events

Free onsite parking

Agile working - remote option

Job summary

Zenith Vehicles in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate and improve Azure cloud and platform capabilities, delivering secure, reliable, scalable solutions. You will join the Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team and provide hands-on 3rd line platform engineering support across cloud infrastructure and IT services.

Responsibilities include designing Azure hosting, deploying using Terraform/Ansible, and implementing Kubernetes in Azure with IaC, while working

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a 3rd line Infrastructure, DevOps or Platform Engineering role.
• Experience deploying Azure infrastructure using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and containerisation technologies.
• Experience with Azure DevOps multistage YAML pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve Azure cloud and platform capabilities ensuring security, reliability and scalability.
• Implement and manage 3rd line engineering support across cloud infrastructure, IT services and platform systems.
• Provide automated and self‑service platform components to enable development and technology teams.
• Implement and maintain servers and Kubernetes in Azure using IaC including Terraform or Ansible.
• Create, maintain and refine Azure resources including servers, VM scale sets, AKS, firewalls, pipelines, app gateways and networks.
• Identify and automate tasks and processes using scripting across the estate.
• Work with InfraOps, DevSecOps and FinOps to remediate vulnerabilities, maintain compliance and optimise cloud performance and cost.

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

Bash scripting

AKS

VM scale sets

App gateways

Firewalls

Networks

Job description

Zenith Vehicles in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate and improve Azure cloud and platform capabilities, delivering secure, reliable, scalable solutions. You will join the Infrastructure and Platform Engineering team and provide hands-on 3rd line platform engineering support across cloud infrastructure and IT services.

Responsibilities include designing Azure hosting, deploying using Terraform/Ansible, and implementing Kubernetes in Azure with IaC, while working