Azure Platform Engineer

Canada Life

London, United Kingdom

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£40,000 – £60,000 pa

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£40,000 – £60,000 pa

Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: Hybrid
Seniority: Mid
Education: Degree
Posted: 30 Apr 2026 (Today)

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£40,000 – £60,000 pa

Job Type: Permanent
Work Location: Hybrid
Seniority: Mid
Education: Degree
Posted: 30 Apr 2026 (Today)

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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

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