Infrastructure Platforms Engineer – Kubernetes

The opportunity

As an Infrastructure Engineer (Kubernetes), you'll be at the heart of our cloud-native journey. You'll design, build, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure container platforms that empower our developers and deliver value to our customers within the University. You will automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Terraform, Helm, and Ansible, and champion GitOps and infrastructure-as-code practices to streamline operations and improve developer experience.

You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize container workloads in production, ensuring reliability, performance, and compliance across environments. Your role will also involve evaluating emerging technologies in the cloud-native ecosystem and contributing to the continuous improvement of our infrastructure platforms.

Your profile

Experience

• Proven experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, container, etc.)  

• Hands on experience working with SUSE Rancher stack, RKE2 and Rancher management above all would be advantageous 

• Strong hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and VMware with with cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices. 

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Helm, Ansible). 

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation (e.g., GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Jenkins). 
• Experience on observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana

• Knowledge of Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals and experience with policy-as-code. 
• Passion for platform engineering, developer experience, and site reliability

We are UAL

University of the Arts London (UAL) generates and inspires the creativity the world needs for a better future. Since 1842, our colleges have been defining creative education. With curiosity, imagination and intent we make work which creates lasting change for people and our planet. London is core to who we are, a place where we meet and share ideas with people from different backgrounds and cultures.

Our creative network influences learning, culture, industry and society on a global scale. Our academics and practitioners deliver creative education and inspire new ways of thinking through research and innovation. We work with students at every level from pre-degree and short courses to postgraduate and online learning, enabling them to build the careers they want. Together, we are a community of makers, thinkers, pioneers and storytellers redesigning the future.

As a University we are ranked second in the world for Art and Design. We are formed of 6 Colleges with unique histories and identities: Camberwell College of Arts, Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, London College of Communication, London College of Fashion and Wimbledon College of Arts. UAL also has 4 Institutes, 5 Research Centres, 1 Pre-Degree School and 2 subsidiary companies delivering specialist activities.

Application process

We operate a fair and open anonymous selection process. Thus, you will need to create an account and submit an application through our job board. As part of this, you will need to provide a supporting statement/answer some competency questions to demonstrate your suitability. Our recruitment process involves: Application, Shortlisting, Interview and Assessment, Offer, Onboarding.

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