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Platform Engineer

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

Full Time

18-03-2025

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Job Specifications

Platform Engineer - Azure
Salary: £70,000 - £75,000
Location: Birmingham - Hybrid working, the client would be looking for someone to go onto site few times a month

About the Role
You will create scalable, reliable, and self-service platforms that enable developers to efficiently build and deploy applications.
You will provide standardised tooling and environments that facilitate consistency and efficiency across development teams.
You will enable smooth, reliable infrastructure management through automation, reducing manual tasks and errors.
You will ensure that the platform's stable, reliable, and optimised for performance, with proactive monitoring and incident management

Skills and experience required:
You will have extensive experience with tools such as Terraform and Kubernetes
You will have in depth knowledge of Azure
Experience with cloud-native services such as compute, storage, networking, and managed Kubernetes services.
Knowledge of CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, ADO Pipelines, Octopus Deploy)
Experience with tools including Prometheus, Grafana and Azure Monitor

If you are interested and looking for your next role, please apply or email emma.mayfield@investigo.co.uk

About the Company

We're a leading recruiter with a team of over 250 consultants working in London, Guildford, Milton Keynes, St Albans, Birmingham, New York, Philadelphia, and San Diego. Our specialist teams hire outstanding people for permanent, temporary, and interim roles with some of the finest employers around, from up-and-coming SMEs to global blue chips. Like the people we work with, we're growing all the time. We now cover over 20 recruitment specialisms and counting: Corporate functions Accountancy and finance | HR | Procurement a... Know more

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