Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure & Kubernetes

Howdens Joinery; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent pension scheme

25 days holiday + bank holidays

Staff Discount

Bonus

Job summary

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy scalable cloud and on‑premise solutions. You will automate infrastructure, workflows and monitor performance to improve developer productivity, working from Northampton or Raunds with onsite presence two days a week.

You will build secure, high‑availability systems, manage containerized deployments with Kubernetes/Docker for Azure Cloud, and drive robust CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in Azure Cloud, Terraform, Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps.
• Experience with on‑premise and cloud‑native architectures.
• Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and security monitoring.
• Strong written and verbal communication for cross‑functional teams.
• Knowledge of Cloud Security and connectivity (Key Vault, vNet, DNS, Firewalls, VPN).

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain and deploy secure, high-availability systems at scale (on-prem and cloud).
• Develop and maintain operational administration, backup, disaster recovery, and security monitoring solutions.
• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across environments for daily deployments.
• Contribute to policies, standards, governance for CI/CD usage.
• Collaborate with architects to design scalable infrastructure for complex apps.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Cloud security

Infrastructure-as-code

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

SonarQube

Fortify

Selenium

Job description

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy scalable cloud and on‑premise solutions. You will automate infrastructure, workflows and monitor performance to improve developer productivity, working from Northampton or Raunds with onsite presence two days a week.

You will build secure, high‑availability systems, manage containerized deployments with Kubernetes/Docker for Azure Cloud, and drive robust CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.