Location: London
Contract Type: 12 Months

About the Role

Guidant Global is supporting our client in hiring a highly skilled Kubernetes Platform Engineer to design, deploy and optimise scalable, resilient Kubernetes‑based solutions across modern cloud environments.
This is an exciting, hands‑on engineering role where you’ll collaborate with DevOps, software development and security teams to ensure seamless deployment, management and monitoring of containerised applications.

If you’re passionate about cloud‑native engineering, automation and modern infrastructure design, this is an opportunity to make a major impact.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement and maintain Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments
Develop and automate CI/CD pipelines to streamline application delivery
Monitor, analyse and optimise cluster performance, reliability, scalability and security
Create and maintain Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
Implement service mesh solutions and ingress controllers
Ensure high‑availability, backup and disaster‑recovery strategies for mission‑critical workloads
Work closely with developers to containerise applications and troubleshoot deployment issues
Maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code using tools such as Terraform
Stay ahead of Kubernetes ecosystem updates and recommend best‑practice improvements

Top Skills & Experience (in order of priority)

Kubernetes - CKA certification highly desirable
Cloud expertise (Azure, AWS or GCP)
Container technologies (Docker, container runtimes, orchestration concepts)
Monitoring & observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
Strong understanding of networking fundamentals - DNS, load balancing, firewalls

Required Skills & Qualifications

Strong hands‑on experience designing and maintaining Kubernetes environments
Solid understanding of cloud infrastructure and cloud‑native patterns
Experience working with CI/CD tooling and automated deployment workflows
Knowledge of containerisation concepts and best practices
Familiarity with monitoring, alerting and performance‑tuning of distributed systems
Good understanding of networking principles as they relate to Kubernetes and cloud environments

Nice to Have

Experience with GitOps workflows and tools (ArgoCD, Flux)
Knowledge of serverless technologies
Experience with scripting languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, etc.)
Understanding of DevSecOps concepts and secure deployment practices

Who You Are

You’re a proactive, technically curious engineer who enjoys designing robust cloud‑native platforms, solving complex problems and improving reliability at scale. You’re collaborative, thoughtful and comfortable working across teams to deliver modern, resilient infrastructure solutions.

Guidant Global is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy