Platform Engineer: Azure Cloud Infra, CI/CD & Kubernetes

OpenDigital Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wayve in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud platforms and infrastructure that support Wayve's software development and release systems, primarily Azure, Terraform and Ansible.

This hands-on role focuses on reliable, scalable, and secure cloud environments, continuous integration and deployment, observability, cost optimisation, and collaboration with engineering teams to enable rapid, safe software delivery.

Qualifications

• 2–5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or related engineering roles.
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and cloud-based deployment pipelines.
• Basic understanding of networking, cloud architecture, and system reliability.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure (primarily Azure) to support development, testing, and production environments.
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code implementations (Terraform, Ansible) for consistent provisioning.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems in cloud environments.
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimise cloud systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Assist in managing containerised workloads and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Implement and maintain observability tools (logging, metrics, alerting) for rapid incident response.
• Work with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets application requirements for scalable delivery.
• Help improve security, access control, and compliance within cloud environments.
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Continuously improve automation, reducing manual operations across infrastructure and deployment workflows.

Skills

DevOps experience

Cloud platforms

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

CI/CD

Networking basics

Troubleshooting

Docker/Kubernetes

Observability tools

Linux scripting

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Job description

Wayve in London is seeking a Platform Engineer to build, operate, and improve the cloud platforms and infrastructure that support Wayve's software development and release systems, primarily Azure, Terraform and Ansible.

This hands-on role focuses on reliable, scalable, and secure cloud environments, continuous integration and deployment, observability, cost optimisation, and collaboration with engineering teams to enable rapid, safe software delivery.