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.

About you

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

What we offer

To recognise the hard work of our staff and their contributions, we provide a wide range of benefits – please check our careers site/Canvas for further information as conditions and exclusions apply:

▪ 34 days of annual leave and 2 days off to volunteer plus bank holidays
▪ Flexible and Dynamic working options available from the first day
▪ Discounted Medical Insurance including Digital GP service, therapies, in-patient and day-case treatment
▪ Free counselling and advice via our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
▪ Sector-leading Equal Parental Leave policy (6 months full pay for both parents) 
▪ Defined-benefit LGPS pension scheme
▪ In-house training and development including apprenticeships and free places on creative courses
▪ Interest free loans on travel and tech, discounts on gym memberships, nursery fees, eye care and much more
▪ Various opportunities to attend student shows and exhibitions

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.

We are a global University, welcoming over 22,000 students and 6,000 staff from 130 countries. We aim to be a university where people can be themselves and feel supported to reach their full potential. That's why we are proud to hold a Bronze Award from the Race Equality Charter (REC), are members of the Business Disability Forum and Employers for Carers, and maintain our status as a Disability Confident Scheme and Living Wage employer.