Cloud Platform Engineer — K8s, Terraform | Cambridge

RedTech Recruitment; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 85,000; Full time

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Job summary

RedTech Recruitment is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer for its Cambridge team to design, build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and developer tooling. You’ll work with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker, building containerised environments and CI/CD pipelines in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment.

The role requires 1+ year of commercial DevOps experience, a strong academic background (2.1 or 1st Class degree) and hands-on cloud platform knowledge.

Qualifications

• 1+ year of commercial experience in DevOps/Platform/Cloud engineering or related
• Proficient with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker; solid understanding of each
• Strong academic background with a 2.1 or 1st Class degree in Computer Science or similar
• Experience with a major cloud platform (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Good understanding of cloud infrastructure, deployment and networking
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Experience with CI/CD and automated delivery pipelines
• Understanding of software engineering and systems design principles
• Strong problem-solving and communicative collaboration across software and infra teams
• Ability to learn new technologies quickly in a varied environment
• Excellent communication and teamwork with both software and infra engineers

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and developer tooling
• Work with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker in day-to-day tasks
• Build and maintain containerised environments and deployment infrastructure
• Develop and improve Infrastructure as Code and automation
• Build, maintain and enhance CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling
• Work across cloud networking, databases, data storage and infra
• Develop monitoring, observability across the platform
• Ensure systems are designed for performance, scalability and resilience
• Collaborate with software engineers to improve deployment processes
• Research, evaluate and test new technologies for the platform
• Contribute to technical design discussions on systems architecture and networking
• Over time participate in the incident response rota and resolve issues

Skills

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar

2.1 or 1st Class degree (ABB at A Levels)

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Docker

Job description

RedTech Recruitment is seeking a DevOps/Platform Engineer for its Cambridge team to design, build and operate scalable cloud infrastructure and developer tooling. You’ll work with Kubernetes, Terraform and Docker, building containerised environments and CI/CD pipelines in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment.

The role requires 1+ year of commercial DevOps experience, a strong academic background (2.1 or 1st Class degree) and hands-on cloud platform knowledge.