VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Working Locations

Sheffield, Manchester, Belfast, Birmingham, Glasgow, London

3 days a week in office, 2 days from home

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced VMware Kubernetes Platform Engineer, responsible for designing, building, and operating cloud native applications and platform capabilities on Kubernetes running on VMware (e.g., TKG / VKS). The role focuses on enabling scalable, resilient, and secure container platforms while supporting development teams through automation, tooling, and best practices. This role sits at the intersection of platform engineering, application development, and Dev Ops/SRE.

• Working closely with an agile development team of Kubernetes engineers to design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes clusters on on‑prem cloud platforms.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes resources including clusters, name spaces, deployments, services, ingress, Config Maps, CRDs and secrets.
• Implement platform capabilities such as logging, monitoring, networking, security, and backup for Kubernetes workloads. Support multi cluster and multi environment Kubernetes deployments (dev, test, prod).

• Work closely with application teams to understand workloads and technical requirements to onboard to Kubernetes platforms.
• Define and promote best practices for containerisation, deployment, and runtime operations.
• Troubleshoot application and platform issues across Kubernetes, containers, and VMware infrastructure.

• Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for Kubernetes.
• Automate platform provisioning and configuration using Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• Develop Helm charts or equivalent templating solutions for application and platform components.
• Integrate Kubernetes with enterprise tooling (identity, security, networking, observability).

• Implement security controls including RBAC, network policies, image scanning, and secrets management.
• Configuration of PKI, certificates, and software supply chain security, in the context of cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• Contribute to platform reliability through SRE practices such as SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Support 24/7 operational readiness through automation, runbooks, and monitoring.
• Participate in incident resolution and continuous improvement activities.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.
• Strong engineering experience in delivering, designing, building and supporting Enterprise Scale Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with On Prem Kubernetes platforms (VKS/TKG preferred).
• Solid understanding of container technologies (Containers, container runtimes).
• Experience with Kubernetes networking, storage, and ingress controllers.
• Strong Linux OS experience

• Familiarity with modern cluster provisioning such as CAPI and cluster management via Gitops.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, or similar).
• CI/CD tooling experience (e.g., Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI, Jenkins, Azure Dev Ops).
• Experience with Helm or equivalent Kubernetes packaging tools.
• Scripting experience (Python, Go or similar).

• Experience working with virtualised infrastructure.
• Understanding of networking, load balancing, and storage in VMware environments.
• Familiarity with hybrid or private cloud architectures.

• Experience with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK).
• Knowledge of Kubernetes security best practices and enterprise security requirements.
• Understanding of identity and access management in Kubernetes environments.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or other related fields ent in Kubernetes environments.

• 10% on target bonus
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%
• Life Assurance Cover
• Exclusive colleague discounts on our latest and greatest BT broadband packages, BT TV with TNT Sports and NOW Entertainment
• Receive 18…