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Senior Platform Engineer

Big*** · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomRemote
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Sponsors visa

Job summary

This Platform/DevOps Engineer designs, operates, and secures cloud platforms, helping migrate on-premises services to a highly available, multi-region Azure environment. The role builds Azure landing zones and Kubernetes environments, automates infrastructure and deployments with Terraform and PowerShell, monitors platform health, resolves incidents, and integrates security into delivery using tools and practices including Azure DevOps CI/CD, Docker, and disaster recovery.

Benefits

25 days of annual leave plus 3 additional days between Christmas and New YearPrivate medical and vision benefitsWellbeing programs, webinars, and online therapyEmployee Resource GroupsCompany-wide wellness dayVolunteer events and individual volunteer daysCareer growth opportunities and study leave allowanceEnhanced parental leave, secondary caregiver leave, and fertility supportPension scheme and life assuranceSalary sacrifice benefitsCycle to Work SchemeTech Scheme

Qualifications

  • Hands-on experience with Azure IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS across compute, networking, security, and data.
  • Experience building Azure landing zones using the Cloud Adoption Framework and leading multi-region migrations, including rehosting, re-platforming, and refactoring.
  • Strong Terraform skills and scripting experience with PowerShell, Bash, SQL, KQL, and Packer.
  • Experience with Azure DevOps YAML pipelines and CI/CD, including integrating security and code-quality tools.
  • Experience setting up, automating, and supporting Kubernetes and Docker environments; Azure Kubernetes Service experience is preferred.
  • Hands-on experience with WAF, security logging, monitoring and alerting, privileged access management, secrets management, and vulnerability management.
  • Knowledge of SAST, DAST, open-source, and container scanning and applying security controls across data, infrastructure, and applications.
  • Experience with business continuity, disaster recovery, and leading complex cloud projects from requirements through support.
  • Knowledge of Agile methods and operations practices.
  • Strong collaboration, analytical problem-solving, learning, communication, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

  • Promote secure working practices and integrate security throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Migrate on-premises services to a highly available, multi-region Azure platform.
  • Build Azure landing zones and support Azure Kubernetes and Docker environments.
  • Automate build, release, and operations tasks.
  • Maintain and secure Terraform and PowerShell modules and create reusable engineering templates.
  • Manage monitoring, dashboards, and usage and uptime reporting.
  • Prioritize incidents, meet service-level agreements, identify root causes, and implement fixes.
  • Participate in planned maintenance during and outside business hours.
  • Collaborate with engineering, architecture, and IT operations teams to deliver secure, compliant products.
  • Write operational and security guides and improve processes, tools, and cloud costs.

Skills

AKSAzureAzure DevOpsBashDockerKubernetesPackerPowerShellTerraform

Work schedule

Planned maintenance during business hours and outside business hours

Industry

Legal technology

Relocation

No