Cloud Platform Engineer — Azure, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Howdens; Wellingborough; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Excellent pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Staff discount

Rewards and recognition events

Job summary

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy scalable cloud solutions that improve development team productivity through automation and performance monitoring. The role is permanent and based at our offices in Northampton or Raunds, with on-site work 2 days per week.

You will build secure, high-availability systems, automate infrastructure with IaC (Terraform), and manage Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps compatible).

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years experience in Azure cloud environments.
• Experience building and managing Kubernetes environments.
• Proficiency with Terraform or other IaC tools.
• Strong CI/CD design and implementation experience (Azure DevOps or equivalent).
• Knowledge of cloud security controls, networking and vault/secrets management.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test and deploy scalable cloud platforms for dev, test and prod.
• Build and maintain secure, high-availability systems on both on-prem and cloud-native architectures.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines across environments to enable daily deployments.
• Create governance, standards and guidance for CI/CD usage across teams.
• Collaborate with architects to design scalable infrastructure and containerized apps using Kubernetes/Docker for Azure.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Cloud Security

CI/CD

Docker

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Job description

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy scalable cloud solutions that improve development team productivity through automation and performance monitoring. The role is permanent and based at our offices in Northampton or Raunds, with on-site work 2 days per week.

You will build secure, high-availability systems, automate infrastructure with IaC (Terraform), and manage Kubernetes clusters and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps compatible).