Kubernetes Platform Engineer - Hybrid, Observability Expert

Scope AT Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Scope AT Limited in London is seeking a permanent Kubernetes SME to join the platform team and deliver production-grade Kubernetes across on‑prem, hybrid and Azure environments. You will design, build and run clusters, set engineering standards and mentor peers.

Strong hands-on Kubernetes mastery, Terraform IaC, and observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch) are essential; Azure experience is a bonus and GitHub Actions CI/CD is used.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kubernetes SME with production cluster design, build and operation.
• Strong observability stack experience with Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch.
• Experience provisioning infrastructure as code across cloud and on-prem environments using Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and running Kubernetes environments (AKS, Docker, Helm).
• Operating observability tooling (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch).
• Provisioning with Terraform and managing configuration with Ansible.
• Running CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.
• Supporting Azure infrastructure and hybrid networking.
• Implementing platform security including access control and encryption.
• Automating with Python, Bash and PowerShell.
• Taking part in on‑call and production support rotations.

Skills

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

Terraform

Azure

Docker

Helm

Ansible

GitHub Actions

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Tools

AKS

Prometheus

Grafana

Terraform

Helm

Azure

Docker

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Elasticsearch

Job description

Scope AT Limited in London is seeking a permanent Kubernetes SME to join the platform team and deliver production-grade Kubernetes across on‑prem, hybrid and Azure environments. You will design, build and run clusters, set engineering standards and mentor peers.

Strong hands-on Kubernetes mastery, Terraform IaC, and observability stack (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, Elasticsearch) are essential; Azure experience is a bonus and GitHub Actions CI/CD is used.