Azure Platform Engineer: Multi-Tenant AKS Platform Lead

Parser Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Flexible working environment

Job summary

Parser Limited is seeking an Azure Principal Platform Engineer to lead a greenfield AKS platform on Azure for a fintech environment. You will architect multi-tenant clusters, define the platform operating model, and mentor an internal team to scale cloud-native capabilities.

You'll act as the Kubernetes SME, drive IaC leadership with Terraform/OpenTofu, and implement observability, RBAC, and security patterns across production environments, enabling self-service for developer teams and strong

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating multi-cluster AKS in production.
• Experience building complex Kubernetes platforms from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of ingress/service mesh, policy-as-code, and secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Architect and bootstrap a greenfield multi-tenant AKS platform on Azure.
• Define and implement an Internal Developer Platform and operating model.
• Upskill and mentor the in-house engineering team throughout the build.
• Design observability with OpenTelemetry and scalable logging/metrics.

Skills

Azure AKS

Kubernetes

Platform engineering

IaC Terraform

GitOps

Observability

Tools

Terraform

OpenTofu

Argo CD

Flux

Spacelift

Atlantis

OPA/Gatekeeper

Job description

Parser Limited is seeking an Azure Principal Platform Engineer to lead a greenfield AKS platform on Azure for a fintech environment. You will architect multi-tenant clusters, define the platform operating model, and mentor an internal team to scale cloud-native capabilities.

You'll act as the Kubernetes SME, drive IaC leadership with Terraform/OpenTofu, and implement observability, RBAC, and security patterns across production environments, enabling self-service for developer teams and strong