Platform Engineer

SUMMARY:
Step into a high‑impact engineering role where you’ll own our production Kubernetes platform end‑to‑end, driving reliability, scalability, observability, and developer experience while building and maintaining Azure DevOps pipelines that power seamless delivery; this hands‑on position puts you at the heart of infrastructure as code, actively developing and executing scripts across development, testing, and production environments to ensure our teams ship faster, safer, and smarter.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities: Platform Ownership Manage and upgrade production K8s clusters; enforce resource quotas, RBAC, and namespace policies. Own cluster autoscaling, node pool configuration, and capacity planning. Manage workloads and cluster lifecycle via Rancher; maintain multi-cluster visibility and access control. Own Helm chart library - versioning, releases, and values management across environments Reliability & Uptime Define and track SLOs\/SLIs for critical services. Own on-call rotation; lead incident response and post-mortems. Proactively identify and eliminate single points of failure Observability. Maintain and improve the monitoring stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki or equivalent). Build and tune alerting rules; reduce alert noise. Ensure distributed tracing is in place for key services. Pipeline & Delivery Maintain CI\/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps; enforce security scanning and policy gates. Partner with dev teams to unblock delivery without compromising stability Infrastructure as Code Manage Azure infrastructure via Terraform. Keep IaC DRY, reviewed, and version-controlled - no manual drift. Cost & Efficiency Right-size workloads; identify and eliminate waste. Report on infrastructure spend with actionable optimisation recommendations. Job Experience and Skills Required: 4+ years in infrastructure\/platform\/SRE roles. Production-grade K8s experience (CKA preferred or equivalent depth) Strong Terraform; remote state, modules, CI-driven apply on Azure Proficiency in at least one scripting\/systems language: Go, Python, or Bash Hands-on incident response experience - you've been on-call, you've done post-mortems Solid networking fundamentals: TCP\/IP, routing, DNS, TLS, ingress controllers, service mesh basics Linux administration fluency Apply now! For more exciting IT vacancies, please visit: I also specialise in recruiting in the following: Software Developers Mobile Developers Business and Systems Analysts BI and SQL Experts If you have not had any response in two weeks, please consider the vacancy application unsuccessful. Your profile will be kept on our database for any other suitable roles \/ positions. For more information, contact: Lameez Mohamed Specialist Recruitment Consultant Connect with me on LinkedIn!