Senior Platform DevOps Engineer

Glocomms — United Kingdom · Posted ~1 day ago

Senior Full-time

Skills

Kubernetes DevOps cloud-native platforms application migration Linux Ubuntu Airflow cloud platforms

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Summary ✨ AI‑Generated

A senior platform engineering role supporting migration of critical applications to modern container platforms. Responsibilities include Kubernetes operations, infrastructure changes, application modernization, and collaboration with development teams.

Highlights

Work on large-scale platform modernization initiatives involving Kubernetes adoption, cloud-native engineering, and application transformation.

Description

Platform DevOps Engineer | Kubernetes Migration Engineer We're partnering with a leading organisation undergoing a major platform modernisation programme and are looking for an experienced Platform DevOps Engineer to help drive the migration of mission-critical applications onto modern Kubernetes platforms. This is an opportunity to work closely with software engineering teams, supporting complex application, infrastructure and platform migrations within a cloud-native environment. What You'll Be Doing Partner with development teams to understand application architectures, dependencies and operational requirementsLead migrations from legacy environments to modern Kubernetes platformsSupport Kubernetes workload migrations and platform adoption initiativesDrive operating system migrations, including CentOS to Ubuntu transitionsAssist with application and workflow modernisation projects, including Airflow migrationsAnalyse application runtime configurations and software dependenciesDevelop automation solutions to improve deployment and migration processesTroubleshoot complex infrastructure, platform and application issuesCollaborate with Platform, Infrastructure and Software Engineering teams to improve reliability and scalabilityContribute to CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and platform engineering best practicesKey Skills Strong experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)Proven experience migrating applications between Kubernetes environmentsHands-on production experience with Kubernetes administration and supportStrong Linux knowledge, particularly CentOS and UbuntuCommercial experience with Python for automation and toolingExperience working closely with software engineering teamsStrong understanding of application runtime environments and dependency managementExperience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practicesExcellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skillsExperience operating within cloud-native and containerised environmentsNice to have Airflow 1.x to 2.x migration experienceExperience with Internal Developer Platforms or Platform Engineering frameworksAWS, Azure or GCP experienceTerraform or other Infrastructure-as-Code toolsObservability and monitoring platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana or similarExperience working in large-scale enterprise or regulated environments