Senior Platform Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join a growing team supporting a large-scale SaaS platform. This role focuses on improving reliability, scalability, and performance while helping drive a major cloud-native transition to Azure and Kubernetes.

You will work closely with engineering teams to modernise infrastructure, automate operations, and ensure highly observable and resilient systems in a production environment handling sensitive data.

This role is suited to engineers who have built platforms and developer infrastructure and who enjoy solving complex technical problems in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build platform capabilities on Azure and Kubernetes
• Support cloud migration and containerisation initiatives
• Improve reliability, observability, and platform performance
• Automate infrastructure using Pulumi and Ansible
• Work closely with engineering teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and operational tooling
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews
• Contribute to knowledge sharing and mentoring within the team

Required Experience

• Strong hands-on Kubernetes experience running production workloads
• Commercial experience working with Microsoft Azure
• Experience building or developing internal platforms
• Strong troubleshooting skills in distributed systems
• Linux administration and scripting (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus or Grafana
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Pulumi preferred)

Desirable

• Software development background (C#, Go, TypeScript, Python)
• Experience with Ansible
• Go development experience
• Experience in regulated environments
• Familiarity with Windows / IIS environments

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.