Platform Engineer

Queen Mary University of London; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension scheme

30 days leave per annum

Season ticket loan

Personal & professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Campus facilities

Job summary

Queen Mary University of London is seeking a Platform Engineer to build and operate a new shared Kubernetes platform within IT Services. You will steward infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, networking, CI/CD, observability and event streaming for university projects and services.

In this hands-on role, you will ensure reliability, security and capacity, provide on-call coverage, and support application, AI and integration engineers using the platform with a focus on a smooth

Qualifications

• The Platform Engineer will build, operate and improve a new shared Kubernetes platform for AAA.
• Role requires experience delivering production-grade platform engineering under engineering standards.
• Responsibilities include operating the platform across the university and keeping users satisfied.

Responsibilities

• Build and run the Kubernetes platform with IaC and automation.
• Manage day-to-day production operations, including on-call and incident response.
• Maintain reliability, security and capacity for services shipping onto the platform.

Skills

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Observability

Incident Response

Networking

Security

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Git

Docker

CI/CD tools

Networking tools

Job description

About the Role

This role sits within IT Services as part of the AI & Automation (AAA) Programme, which is embedding AI and automation into how Queen Mary University of Londonoperates. The AAA team delivers a portfolio of projects covering user-facing AI agents, integrations across university systems and new microservices that automate and improve day-to-day university processes.

About You

The Platform Engineer is an experienced engineer responsible for building,operatingand improving a new shared Kubernetes platform AAAoperatesto deliver services across the university, with operational rigour and engineering standards a core part of day-to-day work. The postholder will own the operability of the environment that application,AIand integration engineers ship their services onto.

This is a hands-on platform engineering role. The postholder will build and run that platform, with day-to-day work spanning infrastructure as code, Kubernetes operations, networking, CI/CD,observabilityand event streaming. Production operations are a core part of the role, including on-call cover, incident response and ongoing work on reliability,securityand capacity. The application, AI and integration engineers shipping onto the platform are its users, and the roleis responsible forkeeping their experience reliable and straightforward.

The postholder will hold a Bachelors Degree and/or equivalent experience

About the Department

The Platform Engineer will join a small, high-impact engineering team within IT Services, working closely with the Head of Engineering and the architecture team to set and uphold platform engineering standards as the platform evolves. The role reports to the Programme Director for AI Automation, Apps and Strategy.

About Queen Mary

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we've fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it's simply 'the right thing to do' but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It's an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days' leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements, and campus facilities.

Queen Mary's commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.