Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure, Kubernetes & Terraform

Ekco; Milton Keynes; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave + public holidays

Birthday Leave

Company Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

EkcOlympics

Pluralsight access

International progression

Job summary

Ekco is hiring for a DevOps/Platform Engineer in Milton Keynes to design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for multiple customers. You will implement IaC with Terraform, run Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS), build CI/CD pipelines and automate tasks using scripting languages, while working within ITIL-based processes and SLAs.

You will also engage with customers, document runbooks, and mentor junior engineers as part of a security-first MSP culture focused on operational efficiency and

Qualifications

• Solid hands-on experience with Azure production environments.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Hands-on experience running Kubernetes in production, ideally AKS or EKS.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting ability in PowerShell, Python and/or Bash.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking and identity.
• Experience with Docker and container-based application delivery.
• Comfortable supporting live services within ITIL-based processes and SLAs.

Responsibilities

• Provide 2nd/3rd line support for customer cloud platforms, resolving incidents, service requests and problems within agreed SLAs.
• Monitor platform health, performance and availability, and respond proactively to alerts.
• Carry out change management in line with ITIL processes, including planning, peer review and implementation of changes.
• Participate in an on-call rota (with additional allowance).
• Design and deploy cloud infrastructure, including landing zones, networking, identity, compute, storage and PaaS services.
• Deliver migrations from on-premises and other clouds into Azure/AWS.
• Produce clear technical documentation, runbooks and handover materials.
• Design, build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform, including reusable modules, remote state management and workspace/environment strategies across multiple customers.
• Deploy, operate and upgrade Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS), including node pool management, networking (CNI, ingress controllers), RBAC and cluster security.
• Build and manage container images and registries (ACR, ECR), including image scanning and lifecycle policies.
• Implement observability across platforms and clusters using Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog, with meaningful alerting rather than noise.
• Support customers' development teams with platform guidance, pipeline design and deployment best practice.
• Identify repetitive operational tasks and automate them using PowerShell, Python, Azure Automation, Logic Apps, Lambda or similar.
• Contribute to our internal automation and tooling, helping standardise how we build and run customer environments.
• Recommend and implement improvements to security posture, resilience and cost efficiency.
• Work directly with customers and internal Technical Account Managers to understand requirements and deliver outcomes.
• Contribute to service reviews and technical roadmap discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Cloud networking

ServiceNow

Tools

AKS

EKS

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

Grafana

Job description

Ekco is hiring for a DevOps/Platform Engineer in Milton Keynes to design, deploy and manage cloud infrastructure for multiple customers. You will implement IaC with Terraform, run Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS), build CI/CD pipelines and automate tasks using scripting languages, while working within ITIL-based processes and SLAs.

You will also engage with customers, document runbooks, and mentor junior engineers as part of a security-first MSP culture focused on operational efficiency and