Kubernetes Software Engineer
Europe,
United Kingdom,
London
Permanent
Job ID: 2327
Job Description
[Up to c. £325k Comp Package | Office-Led Working]
Role Overview
We’re representing a leading quantitative research and technology firm, hiring two Kubernetes Software Engineers to expand its London-based developer environments team. The team builds and operates Kubernetes-based development platforms used by engineers across the company, combining deep Kubernetes engineering, software development and SRE-style platform ownership. You’ll work across clusters, operators, APIs, CLIs, authentication, internal services and AI-enabled developer tooling. With direct access to internal users and fast feedback loops, you’ll have a visible impact on the reliability, usability and evolution of the firm’s developer experience...
Key Responsibilities
- Build, operate and continuously improve Kubernetes-based development environments used across the company
- Manage Kubernetes clusters, operators and deeper platform integrations
- Develop internal tooling, including APIs, CLIs and integrations with authentication, AI tools and internal services
- Design solutions around user requirements, scale, reliability, maintainability and developer experience
- Apply SRE practices across observability, alerting, troubleshooting and platform reliability
- Work directly with internal customers in London, gathering feedback and iterating on developer workflows
- Contribute across Kubernetes engineering, software development and production platform operations
What You’ll Bring...
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering or SRE, including substantial hands-on work with Kubernetes-based production platforms
- Deep Kubernetes experience beyond deploying applications, including operating or deploying clusters
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture and how the platform works under the hood
- Experience building Kubernetes operators, controllers or deeper platform integrations
- Strong Go programming skills, ideally across APIs, CLIs, operators or internal platform tooling
- Strong general software engineering capability, including solution design, testing, debugging and maintainable production code
- SRE or platform engineering experience across observability, alerting, reliability and production operations
- Ability to clarify ambiguous requirements and design appropriate technical solutions
- Comfort integrating platforms with authentication services, internal systems, external tools and AI technologies
- (Preferred) Experience with remote development environments or internal developer platforms
- (Preferred) Exposure to AI-enabled developer tooling or coding assistants
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