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Kubernetes Engineer

Job Type
Contract/Temporary
Location
London
Salary
Negotiable
Job Ref
BBBH175520_1773333274
Date Added
March 12th, 2026
Consultant
daniel simpson

Kubernetes Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer

Location: London

We're looking for a skilled Kubernetes Engineer / Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build and optimise scalable, cloud‑native platforms. If you're passionate about automation, containers and modern cloud infrastructure, this role offers the chance to shape high‑availability systems used across a growing engineering organisation.


What you'll be doing

  • Designing and implementing Kubernetes clusters in cloud environments
  • Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
  • Developing Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
  • Managing service mesh solutions and ingress controllers
  • Monitoring and optimising cluster performance, security and scalability
  • Ensuring high availability, resilience and disaster‑recovery strategies
  • Supporting developers with containerisation and deployment troubleshooting
  • Maintaining Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform)
  • Driving improvements across the Kubernetes and cloud ecosystem

What we're looking for

Top skills (in order of importance):

  1. Kubernetes (CKA desirable)
  2. Cloud experience (AWS / Azure / GCP)
  3. Container technologies (Docker, container orchestration)

You'll also need:

  • Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of networking concepts (DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
  • Experience implementing secure, scalable cloud‑native platforms
  • Solid knowledge of CI/CD tooling and DevOps best practices

Nice to have:

  • GitOps tooling (ArgoCD, Flux)
  • Serverless technologies and cloud‑native patterns
  • Scripting skills (Python, Bash, Go, etc.)
  • Understanding of DevSecOps principles

Why join?

  • Work with modern cloud-native tooling and architecture
  • Influence engineering standards and platform direction
  • Join a high‑impact team building scalable, resilient systems

Ready to take the next step in your DevOps/Kubernetes career? Apply now.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

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