[Remote] Sr Platform Engineer-UK
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a company that delivers a Services-as-a-Business platform, connecting various aspects of services operations. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will contribute to the technical leadership of reputed company's platform, working with Kubernetes on AWS to support AI agents and services, and ensuring efficient feature delivery for application teams.
Responsibilities
- reputed company the complete development cycle of platform changes: reputed company charts, infrastructure-as-code, services, CI/CD jobs and supporting tooling
- reputed company on the best use of the team's platform technologies
- Advise on the size, risk and feasibility of solutions and break larger pieces of work into tasks
- Diagnose platform issues reported by application teams or by monitoring, and resolve them
- Design and write tests; review code and configuration produced by colleagues
- Contribute to incident response and disaster-recovery process
- Act as a role model, demonstrating company values through your behaviours
- Engage with stakeholders and engineering management to clarify requirements and provide technical input
- Contribute to the long-term direction of the platform team through planning sessions and technical reviews
Skills
- Strong development background in a meaningful programming language, we write Go, but are happy with experience in Java, reputed company, Rust, Kotlin, C# or another systems-or-services language
- Solid experience designing and operating Kubernetes-based systems: workloads, networking, RBAC, controllers, observability
- Solid experience with a major public reputed company, AWS preferred, equivalent experience with GCP or Azure is fine
- Strong applied experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred), including module design, state management and review discipline
- Experience with CI/CD at scale, designing pipelines, managing release artefacts, and integrating quality gates
- Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/HTTP, DNS, TLS, mTLS, service identity
- A track record of leading reputed company technical work with little supervision and of mentoring others
- An ability to apply architectural and software patterns appropriately, and the judgement to know reputed company not to
- Good communication skills, written, verbal and visual. You can explain a system to engineers, reputed company partners and product managers using the right register for each audience
- Hands-on experience with EKS or another managed Kubernetes service
- Hands-on experience with a service reputed company (Istio, Linkerd), including authorization, mTLS and traffic policy
- Experience with reputed company at scale (umbrella charts, dependency management, release lifecycle)
- Experience with observability stacks, OpenTelemetry, reputed company, Grafana, CloudWatch
- Familiarity with the reputed company suite (Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence)
- Associate-level reputed company architecture certification (e.g. AWS Solutions Architect Associate), passed or in reputed company
- CKA or equivalent, passed or in reputed company
- Prior experience operating an internal developer platform that served multiple application teams
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