About this role
Salary: £85,000 - 95,000 per year
Requirements: Kubernetes / AKS is essential.Strong experience across Microsoft Azure.Strong experience across Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.Strong experience across Azure Front Door.Strong experience across Azure API Management.Strong experience across ArgoCD / GitOps.Strong experience across Renovate.Strong experience across CI/CD and deployment automation.Strong experience across observability and production troubleshooting.Strong experience across highly available, business-critical production environments.Experience supporting high-volume SaaS platforms handling millions of requests would be particularly valuable. Responsibilities: Maintain and evolve a large-scale, globally deployed SaaS platform.Build, operate and improve Azure Kubernetes environments.Ensure the platform continues to meet its 99.95% availability SLA.Improve scalability, resilience and operational reliability.Automate infrastructure and platform changes through Terraform.Improve deployment processes and reduce the risk of downtime.Troubleshoot platform, networking and workload issues in production.Improve monitoring, observability and operational processes.Work closely with Software Engineering, Security and Architecture teams. Technologies: APIArgoCDAzureCI/CDGitOpsKubernetesRenovateSecurityTerraformCloudDevOps More:
We are partnering with a global technology organisation to hire a Senior Platform Engineer for our flagship SaaS platform. This is a permanent hybrid role based in the Croydon / Reigate area, with 2 days onsite per week. We operate in a genuinely high-scale engineering environment, with more than 32 million requests processed every day across 5 global deployment nodes and a 99.95% availability SLA. Our platform is Azure-only, with Kubernetes at the heart of the environment, and this role offers the chance to help evolve a business-critical platform where reliability, scalability and safe change are fundamental. The package includes up to £95,000 base, a 15% bonus and benefits.
last updated 34 week of 2026