Senior Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & CI/CD Leader

Partnerize; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday in addition to bank

Private Medical and Dental Insurance

Enhanced pension contributions

Cycle to Work scheme

Eye Care Vouchers

Life Assurance

Wellness Program and EAP

Job summary

Partnerize is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the deployment architecture and modernise how we deploy and scale workloads on our Kubernetes platform. You will own CI/CD pipelines, guardrails, and migration strategies across our on-premise estate, shaping engineering self-service workflows and standards.

The role offers hands-on ownership with real impact, enabling engineers to ship value rapidly while maintaining platform stability and security.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills required in a people-first culture.
• Extensive experience with Ansible: roles, inventories, vault, idempotency.
• Production experience with Docker and Docker Compose.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Strong Bash and Python scripting skills.
• Experience with GitOps tooling: ArgoCD or Flux.
• Experience with observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager).
• Ability to work pragmatically with existing stack and plan iterative improvements.
• Security-minded and methodical approach to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment architecture across on-premise estate and Kubernetes platform rollout.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, automated guardrails, and migration strategies for safe production delivery.
• Contribute to deployment automation and runbooks; maintain documentation for onboarding and releases.
• Collaborate with TechOps to shape self-service workflows, guardrails, and standards for Kubernetes usage.
• Build and maintain deployment pipelines using Helm, Kustomize, ArgoCD, or similar tools.
• Establish observability within namespaces, including metrics, logging, and alerting.
• Document deployment templates and best practices for self-service use by engineers.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Ansible

Docker

Networking basics

Bash & Python

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Observability tools

Creative problem solving

Security-minded

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Kustomize

ArgoCD

Flux

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Job description

Partnerize is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the deployment architecture and modernise how we deploy and scale workloads on our Kubernetes platform. You will own CI/CD pipelines, guardrails, and migration strategies across our on-premise estate, shaping engineering self-service workflows and standards.

The role offers hands-on ownership with real impact, enabling engineers to ship value rapidly while maintaining platform stability and security.