Senior Azure Platform Engineer - AKS, Terraform & DevOps

Client Server; Salfords; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health care

Life assurance

Enhanced parental leave

Birthday off

Pension contributions

Job summary

Client Server is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and optimisation of a highly available Azure platform. This hybrid role welcomes collaboration with our Reigate team and flexible remote work, with on-site days twice a week.

You will drive automation, IaC adoption, and platform reliability, mentoring junior engineers while maintaining security and performance across a mission-critical cloud environment.

Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting large-scale Azure platforms.
• Proven expertise with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform.
• Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, monitoring, and high-availability environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills in production environments.
• Ability to mentor others in a senior role.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimise highly available Azure infrastructure.
• Ensure platform security, resilience, and scalability.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, and operations.
• Drive improvements across the software delivery lifecycle while reducing overhead.
• Collaborate with engineering to shape platform architecture.
• Improve observability and performance across the platform.
• Champion IaC and DevOps best practices.
• Tackle complex technical challenges hands-on.
• Support reliability and evolution of the mission-critical cloud platform.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Terraform

PowerShell

CI/CD

DevOps

Networking

Security

Monitoring

High availability

Troubleshooting

Mentoring

Tools

Azure

AKS

Terraform

Job description

Client Server is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and optimisation of a highly available Azure platform. This hybrid role welcomes collaboration with our Reigate team and flexible remote work, with on-site days twice a week.

You will drive automation, IaC adoption, and platform reliability, mentoring junior engineers while maintaining security and performance across a mission-critical cloud environment.