Infrastructure Platform Engineer (Kubernetes)

University of the Arts London (UAL) is a world-leading creative University for teaching and research in art, design, fashion, communication and performing arts. UAL is made up of six renowned colleges and hosts several centres and institutes that further the University's mission and social purpose, through the students and ideas we send out into the world and the partnerships we build to achieve social, environmental, and economic progress.

Digital & Technology at UAL is on an exciting journey, transitioning from a 'classic' IT approach to a user-centred product approach to technology. We are investing in our people, and the processes enabled by digital, to evolve and transform the student and staff experience at UAL.

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.

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 cloud cost optimization and FinOps practices.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (eg, Terraform, Helm, Ansible).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation (eg, 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

UAL is a world-class University shaping the creative industries worldwide, with staff having access to a range of benefits, training and personal development to recognise and reward the contributions they make, as well as to encourage excellence, creativity and diversity, including:

• Competitive salary of £44,375 - £57,344 + 6% Market Supplement per annum, Dependent on experience
• 34 days annual leave plus public holidays
• Generous, defined benefit pension scheme
• Family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of paid maternity or paternity leave

HAYS Technology have been retained by University of the Arts London to manage the search and recruitment of this role. For all enquiries, please contact Liam Cornelius-Rumsey at Hays Technology.