Azure Platform Engineer

Location: London, Watford or Bristol (Hybrid working options available)

We’re looking for an Azure Platform Engineer with strong experience in Kubernetes and an interest in platform abstraction and cloud-native infrastructure patterns. You’ll help us design and build shared platform capabilities on Azure that hide complexity from product teams while enforcing security, reliability and governance by default.

This role is ideal for an engineer who

Enjoys working with Kubernetes and Azure

Thinks in terms of platform APIs, abstractions and self-service

Is curious about emerging control plane and infrastructure abstraction approaches

Wants to help teams consume infrastructure as a product

How the Team Works

You’ll join a Platform Engineering team focused on building reusable, internal platform services rather than one-off infrastructure.

We work using

Kubernetes as a core platform primitive

GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code

DevSecOps and SRE-inspired practices

AI-assisted engineering (Copilot, agents, automation)

What You’ll Do

Build and operate Azure-backed platform services exposed through Kubernetes APIs

Design abstractions that allow teams to provision infrastructure safely and consistently

Work with AKS as a core runtime for platform and workload services

Contribute to platform control plane capabilities (e.g. Kubernetes-based or API-driven approaches)

Define and manage Azure resources using Terraform, Bicep and declarative approaches

- Embed security, governance and policy into platform defaults

Support GitOps-driven workflows and CI/CD pipelines

Improve observability, reliability and operational readiness

Who You Are

Essential

Experience in Azure, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform roles

Hands-on experience with Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-Code experience

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python)

CI/CD and Git-based workflows

Desirable

Experience with platform abstraction or control plane patterns (e.g. Crossplane, Pulumi, or similar approaches)

Kubernetes extension patterns or operators

Terraform or Bicep

Azure networking, identity and governance

GitOps tooling