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Platform Reliability Engineer

Spo*** · Milton Keynes, ENG, United Kingdom
Milton Keynes, ENG, United KingdomExp: 3+ yrsHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive salary plus excellent benefits
Location
Milton Keynes, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa

Job summary

The Platform Reliability Engineer supports the reliability, performance, and operational readiness of business-critical applications and cloud platforms serving 24/7 products. The role includes incident response and root-cause analysis, automation, observability, and CI/CD improvements across Microsoft Azure and Kubernetes environments, collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to strengthen resilience and reduce operational toil.

Benefits

Excellent benefits

Qualifications

  • At least 3 years of experience in SRE, platform support, cloud operations, or a similar production engineering role.
  • Experience supporting highly available, business-critical services in a 24/7 environment.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure and cloud operational best practices.
  • Experience supporting containerized workloads, ideally with Kubernetes and AKS.
  • Knowledge of monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, and Azure Monitor.
  • Experience troubleshooting complex applications, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems.
  • Familiarity with automation, scripting, and CI/CD practices.
  • Strong incident management, problem-solving, and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

  • Support and maintain highly available, business-critical applications and cloud platforms.
  • Investigate and resolve incidents, restore services rapidly, and perform root-cause analysis.
  • Improve platform reliability through automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
  • Enhance observability with dashboards, logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting.
  • Support Azure-hosted services, Kubernetes environments, and cloud-native technologies.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, deployment processes, and operational readiness.
  • Reduce operational toil and improve resilience and service performance.
  • Collaborate with software engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure, and security teams.

Skills

AKSAnsibleArgo CDAzureAzure MonitorBicep.NETFluxGrafanaJavaKubernetesPrometheusRHELTerraformActiveMQIBM Cloud

Work schedule

24/7 environment

Relocation

No