Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure & Infra Automation

wayve; Greater London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate, and improve our cloud platforms and infrastructure behind software development and release systems.

You will work with a team to maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud environments, with opportunities to deepen expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering. The role emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and security in a fast-growing embdedded AI context.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform or Ansible).
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and cloud-based deployment pipelines.
• Basic understanding of networking, cloud architecture, and system reliability.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Desirable: containerisation and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Desirable: monitoring/observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or ELK.
• Desirable: Linux systems and shell scripting.
• Desirable: programming/scripting (Python, Bash, Go).
• Desirable: cloud security best practices.
• Desirable: experience with large-scale or distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure, primarily Azure, to support development, testing, and production environments.
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code implementations for consistent provisioning.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems in cloud environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise cloud systems for performance, reliability, and cost.
• Assist in managing containerised workloads with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain observability for logging, metrics, and alerting to monitor health and incidents.
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure infrastructure meets application requirements.
• Improve security, access control, and compliance within cloud environments.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for infra issues.
• Continue to automate operations across infra and deployment workflows.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud infra

CI/CD

Troubleshooting

Security best practices

Linux systems

Shell scripting

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Docker

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Azure

AWS

GCP

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Wayve in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate, and improve our cloud platforms and infrastructure behind software development and release systems.

You will work with a team to maintain reliable, scalable, and secure cloud environments, with opportunities to deepen expertise in cloud infrastructure, automation, and platform engineering. The role emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and security in a fast-growing embdedded AI context.