Senior Azure Platform Engineer - Hybrid in London

McNally Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

McNally Recruitment Ltd seeks a Senior Platform Engineer in London to lead the design, build and operation of a secure Azure-based platform. You will own CI/CD, IaC, containerization and observability, driving standards and automation across the engineering team.

The role requires deep Azure expertise, advanced Kubernetes and GitLab capabilities, and strong collaboration across distributed teams in a regulated environment. Hybrid work supports 1 day in office per week.

Qualifications

• AT LEAST 10 years' experience with Azure.
• Experience as a senior platform/infrastructure or cloud engineer, preferably in regulated environments.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Deep knowledge of container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes, with Helm experience.
• Proficient in IaC using Terraform with reusable patterns.
• Experience implementing monitoring and observability with tools like Splunk, Prometheus or Grafana.
• Scripting expertise in PowerShell or Bash, with Python or Go for automation.
• Proficient in YAML for build, deployment and automation.
• Experience with Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban) and Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate a secure, resilient and scalable Azure infrastructure estate, including CI/CD, IaC, container and observability capabilities.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, reference architecture, guardrails and reusable platform services, promoting automation, security and operational excellence.
• Lead design and implementation of delivery automation using GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and DevOps practices.
• Own complex technical designs and operations, managing risk and ensuring secure, cost-effective solutions.
• Embed security, resilience, compliance, monitoring and performance considerations across platform design and delivery.
• Contribute to technical review, knowledge sharing and runbooks; maintain architecture documentation.

Skills

Azure

Docker internals

Kubernetes

GitLab

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Python

Go

GitOps

SRE

Security & governance

Azure governance

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

McNally Recruitment Ltd seeks a Senior Platform Engineer in London to lead the design, build and operation of a secure Azure-based platform. You will own CI/CD, IaC, containerization and observability, driving standards and automation across the engineering team.

The role requires deep Azure expertise, advanced Kubernetes and GitLab capabilities, and strong collaboration across distributed teams in a regulated environment. Hybrid work supports 1 day in office per week.