Platform Engineer – Self-Managed Kubernetes Expert (Hybrid London)

Hlx Life Sciences; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

HLX Life Sciences in London is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters across private, on-prem and cloud environments. You will own the cluster lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and maintenance, with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and observability.

You will develop IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and build CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Helm, while coding platform automation in

Qualifications

• Hands-on structuring of self-managed Kubernetes clusters from scratch.
• Experience provisioning and operating Kubernetes control planes and workers.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters across private/on-prem/cloud.
• Manage full cluster lifecycle: provisioning, upgrades, scaling, maintenance, troubleshooting.
• Handle control plane, worker nodes, networking, ingress and storage.
• Develop IaC using Terraform and/or Ansible.
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps with GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Helm.
• Develop platform services and automation in Python.
• Monitor and troubleshoot production Kubernetes environments.
• Improve reliability, performance, scalability and observability.
• Implement backup, disaster recovery and failover strategies.
• Apply security best practices across Kubernetes and cloud infra.
• Support compute, data and ML workloads; contribute to platform strategy.

Skills

Hands-on infra

Kubernetes admin

Terraform

Ansible

GitOps

Python

CI/CD

Monitoring

Security best pract.

DR planning

Tools

kubeadm

RKE/RKE2

OpenShift

K3s/MicroK8s

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

ArgoCD

Helm

Kubectl

Rancher

Job description

HLX Life Sciences in London is seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer to design, deploy, and operate self-managed Kubernetes clusters across private, on-prem and cloud environments. You will own the cluster lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, and maintenance, with strong emphasis on security, reliability, and observability.

You will develop IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and build CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, ArgoCD and Helm, while coding platform automation in