Senior Platform Engineer Azure AKS SaaS

Client Server

Reigate

Hybrid

GBP 57,000 - 95,000

Full time

18 hours ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

25 days holiday

Pension (up to 10% contribution)

Health Care

Life Assurance

Training and career development

Social events

Job summary

Senior Platform Engineer (Azure AKS IaC SaaS) Reigate / WFH to £95k Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with deep Azure expertise looking to work on infrastructure at serious scale?

You could be joining a technology driven FinTech where you'll be responsible for the reliability, performance and evolution of a mission critical cloud platform spanning more than 250 nodes and processing over 32 million requests every day.

Qualifications

Strong experience building and supporting large scale Azure platforms.
Expertise with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
Extensive Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform.
Advanced PowerShell scripting and automation skills.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
Strong understanding of cloud networking, security, monitoring and high availability environments.
Excellent troubleshooting skills and experience supporting mission-critical production environments.
Comfortable in a senior role providing some mentoring.

Responsibilities

Design, build and optimise highly available Azure infrastructure.
Automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment and operational processes.
Drive improvements across the software delivery lifecycle while reducing operational overhead.
Collaborate with engineering teams to shape platform architecture and improve observability and performance.

Skills

Azure

AKS

Terraform

PowerShell

CI/CD

DevOps

Cloud networking

Security

Monitoring

High availability

Troubleshooting

Mentoring

Tools

AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service)

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer (Azure AKS IaC SaaS) Reigate / WFH to £95k

Are you an experienced Platform Engineer with deep Azure expertise looking to work on infrastructure at serious scale?

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll design, build and optimise highly available Azure infrastructure, ensuring the platform remains secure, resilient and scalable as demand continues to grow. You'll automate infrastructure provisioning, deployment and operational processes, driving improvements across the software delivery lifecycle while reducing operational overhead.

Collaborating with engineering teams, you'll help shape platform architecture, improve observability and performance and champion Infrastructure-as-Code and DevOps best practices. This is a hands-on role where you'll solve complex technical challenges and have a direct impact on the reliability of large-scale production systems.

Location / WFH

There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days work from home (please note you must be within a one hour commute of Reigate).

About you

You have strong experience building and supporting large scale Azure platforms
You have expertise with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
You have strong Infrastructure-as-Code experience using Terraform
You have advanced PowerShell scripting and automation skills
You have experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices
You have a strong understanding of cloud networking, security, monitoring and high availability environments
You have excellent troubleshooting skills and experience supporting mission-critical production environments
You enjoy collaboratively problem solving to provide simple solutions to complex problems
You're comfortable in a senior role providing some mentoring

What's in it for you