Senior Platform & Reliability Engineer - Hybrid Kubernetes

Context Recruitment Limited

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 57,000 - 95,000

Full time

5 hours ago
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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.

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