Senior Azure Platform Engineer - Cloud-Native & GitOps

MCS Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Medical Insurance

Generous Pension Contribution

25 days holiday

Annual Bonus

Job summary

MCS Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in London to design and build cloud-native Azure infrastructure and lead from requirements to production. The role emphasises hands-on platform work with Terraform, Terragrunt, AKS and GitOps, delivering scalable multi-tenant environments.

The position is hybrid (2 days in the London office) with responsibilities spanning CI/CD pipelines, security, observability and DevSecOps practices to improve reliability and performance.

Qualifications

• Strong cloud-native Azure experience.
• Production experience with Terragrunt.
• Terraform experience with reusable module design, remote state, locking and environment separation.
• Production experience with Kubernetes / AKS.
• Experience implementing GitOps using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Azure networking and identity knowledge including: Entra ID, RBAC, Private Endpoints, VNet design, Azure Policy.
• Experience designing and building multi-subscription or multi-tenant Azure environments.
• Comfortable gathering requirements and delivering end-to-end from design to production.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain cloud-native Azure infrastructure.
• Gather technical requirements and take ownership of solutions from design through to production.
• Build and manage multi-subscription or multi-tenant Azure environments.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Design reusable Terraform modules, remote state, locking and environment separation.
• Build, configure and manage Kubernetes / AKS clusters.
• Implement GitOps practices using ArgoCD or Flux.
• Design and manage Azure networking including VNets and Private Endpoints.
• Implement identity, access and governance controls using Entra ID, RBAC and Azure Policy.
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Work closely with engineering, product and QA teams to support reliable delivery.
• Improve platform reliability, security, observability and performance.
• Help drive DevSecOps, SRE and automation best practices across the platform.

Skills

Hands-on platform engineering

End-to-end ownership

Cloud-native design

Production experience

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

Kubernetes

AKS

ArgoCD

Flux

Entra ID

RBAC

Azure Policy

VNet

Job description

MCS Group is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in London to design and build cloud-native Azure infrastructure and lead from requirements to production. The role emphasises hands-on platform work with Terraform, Terragrunt, AKS and GitOps, delivering scalable multi-tenant environments.

The position is hybrid (2 days in the London office) with responsibilities spanning CI/CD pipelines, security, observability and DevSecOps practices to improve reliability and performance.