Senior Platform Engineer - Azure, GitLab & Kubernetes

McNally Recruitment Ltd; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

McNally Recruitment Ltd in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead hands-on work within the Platform & Infrastructure team. You will design, build and operate a secure, scalable Azure estate, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containers and observability capabilities, while promoting automation and engineering best practices.

You will own complex designs, drive security and resilience, and collaborate across distributed teams to deliver reliable platform services and runbooks

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering role.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating Microsoft Azure environments.
• Demonstrable experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab.
• Strong practical experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
• Proven experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud or on‑premises infrastructure.
• Experience implementing or operating monitoring, logging and observability with Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Strong scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, and at least one language such as Python or Go.
• Able to write, maintain and review code used for automation and YAML for deployment automation.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments and with Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate Azure infrastructure with CI/CD, IaC, containers and observability.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, reference architecture, guardrails and reusable platform services.
• Lead the design and implementation of delivery automation using GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm and Terraform.
• Own complex technical designs and operational issues, managing risk with security and cost controls.
• Embed security, resilience, monitoring and performance considerations across platform design and delivery.
• Contribute to technical reviews, knowledge sharing and runbooks, maintaining high-quality documentation.
• Support effective platform service management.

Skills

Senior platform role

Azure design and operations

CI/CD with GitLab

Docker/Kubernetes/Helm

Terraform

Monitoring/observability

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash)

Python or Go

YAML automation

Agile delivery (Scrum/Kanban)

Jira/Confluence

Tech comms & writing

Tools

GitLab

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

Jira

Confluence

Job description

McNally Recruitment Ltd in London is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead hands-on work within the Platform & Infrastructure team. You will design, build and operate a secure, scalable Azure estate, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, containers and observability capabilities, while promoting automation and engineering best practices.

You will own complex designs, drive security and resilience, and collaborate across distributed teams to deliver reliable platform services and runbooks