Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure & Kubernetes

National Physical Laboratory; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 12%

Life Assurance 3x salary

Generous leave

Job summary

National Physical Laboratory (UKTL) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments in a Birmingham based role. You’ll work across Linux, virtualization, containers and automation to deliver reliable, scalable IT platforms for research and engineering teams.

Applicants should have strong Azure experience, containerization skills, IaC and CI/CD expertise, plus security focus.

Qualifications

• Strong Azure platform engineering experience.
• Experience with Linux-based infrastructure across hybrid environments.
• Proficiency in container platforms and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support Linux-based infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Manage virtualization, container platforms and storage technologies.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and IaC solutions.
• Automate operations with Terraform, Ansible and scripting.
• Implement platform security, RBAC, secrets management and monitoring.

Skills

Azure

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Scripting

RBAC

Monitoring

Tools

OpenStack

Prometheus

Grafana

Citrix

Job description

National Physical Laboratory (UKTL) is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build and operate secure platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments in a Birmingham based role. You’ll work across Linux, virtualization, containers and automation to deliver reliable, scalable IT platforms for research and engineering teams.

Applicants should have strong Azure experience, containerization skills, IaC and CI/CD expertise, plus security focus.