Cloud DevOps Platform Engineer - Kubernetes & IaC

Sky; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sky Q

Sky Glass at exclusive rate

Pension package

Private healthcare

Discounted mobile and broadband

Sky VIP rewards

Job summary

Sky is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join the Group Platform Engineering team in the UK. You’ll design, build and operate cloud infrastructure using IaC, develop automated CI/CD pipelines, and manage containerised workloads with Kubernetes and Docker to support Sky’s services.

Hybrid working is offered, with two days in the Osterley office. You’ll work closely with software engineers, architects and operations, driving observability, security, and scalable, cost-efficient platforms across Sky’s

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Infrastructure Engineering with production cloud environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi) and knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, security and operations.
• Experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD and GitOps pipelines (Jenkins, Concourse, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD or FluxCD).
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and scripting (Python, Bash).
• Hands-on experience deploying containerised platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) including monitoring and logging.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and manage cloud infrastructure with IaC (Terraform).
• Develop and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines for rapid software delivery.
• Deploy, manage, and support containerised workloads with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability for platform health and performance.
• Apply security, networking, and operational best practices across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with engineers and operations to deliver scalable, cost-effective solutions.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, and application issues with RCA and improvements.
• Contribute to platform standards and reusable automation for dev productivity.
• Create and maintain technical docs, runbooks, and knowledge materials.
• Support platform operations via on-call rota and incident response.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Python scripting

Linux/Unix

Cloud AWS

Networking & security

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Pulumi

Jenkins

Concourse

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Sky is hiring a DevOps Engineer to join the Group Platform Engineering team in the UK. You’ll design, build and operate cloud infrastructure using IaC, develop automated CI/CD pipelines, and manage containerised workloads with Kubernetes and Docker to support Sky’s services.

Hybrid working is offered, with two days in the Osterley office. You’ll work closely with software engineers, architects and operations, driving observability, security, and scalable, cost-efficient platforms across Sky’s