Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer - Hybrid Kubernetes

Context Recruitment Limited; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 57,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

20% bonus

Job summary

Context Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own and scale our production platform across cloud and on-premise systems in a hybrid London setup.

You will lead a small, expert team, manage Kubernetes clusters (GKE and self-managed), support MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, and automate with Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash. This is not CI/CD; the focus is reliable, scalable platform ownership with strong observability.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying Kubernetes in production (GKE or self-managed).
• Designing highly available, resilient infrastructure.
• Experience with monitoring and observability (Grafana/Prometheus/ELK).
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer, and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Build, manage and scale Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-prem.
• Support and administer MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
• Manage monitoring, alerting and logging platforms.
• Automate infrastructure with Infrastructure as Code and scripting.
• Maintain high availability and resilience across critical systems.
• Provide technical guidance to internal teams across regions.

Skills

Kubernetes in production

GKE / self-managed clusters

Monitoring and observability

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Bash scripting

High availability

On-prem & hybrid

Time-zone collaboration

Tools

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

rsyslog

Job description

Context Recruitment Limited is seeking a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to own and scale our production platform across cloud and on-premise systems in a hybrid London setup.

You will lead a small, expert team, manage Kubernetes clusters (GKE and self-managed), support MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB, and automate with Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash. This is not CI/CD; the focus is reliable, scalable platform ownership with strong observability.