Senior Cloud Platform Engineer (Azure, Kubernetes, CI/CD)

Howdens; Northampton; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus

Pension up to 12%

25 days holiday + BH

Staff discount

Rewards events

Job summary

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy automated infrastructure for development, testing and production. You will help optimise CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments across Azure Cloud.

The role sits in our Northampton or Raunds offices with hybrid working 2 days onsite per week. A competitive package includes pension and holiday benefits, plus staff discounts.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years experience in Azure Cloud, IaC (Terraform), Kubernetes, and Azure DevOps or equivalent CI/CD platforms.
• Strong experience in building secure, scalable on-premise and cloud-native architectures with automation.
• Proficiency in cloud security, connectivity and governance across environments.
• Hands-on experience delivering automated CI/CD pipelines and containerized solutions.

Responsibilities

• Create, maintain and deploy secure, high-availability systems at scale across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Develop and maintain solutions for operational administration, backups, disaster recovery and monitoring.
• Deploy and optimize CI/CD pipelines across environments to enable daily deployments.
• Define and implement policies, standards and governance for CI/CD usage.
• Collaborate with architects to design scalable infrastructure for complex apps.
• Support container-based solutions using Kubernetes/Docker for Azure Cloud.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Terraform

Kubernetes environments

Azure DevOps / CI/CD platforms

Cloud Security & Connectivity

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

CI/CD pipelines (SonarQube, Fortify, S

Cross-functional communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Howdens Joinery is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, develop, test and deploy automated infrastructure for development, testing and production. You will help optimise CI/CD pipelines and containerized deployments across Azure Cloud.

The role sits in our Northampton or Raunds offices with hybrid working 2 days onsite per week. A competitive package includes pension and holiday benefits, plus staff discounts.