Platform Engineer

Verda; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Lunch stipend

Wellbeing

Equity

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Verda in Helsinki seeks an experienced Senior Platform Engineer to build, operate, and harden self-hosted Kubernetes platforms. You will own deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations, ensuring reliability through on‑call incident management.

You will collaborate with engineers to improve deployment processes, observability, and platform services, employing Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows while maintaining Linux systems and security.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating production Kubernetes environments.
• Experience managing self-hosted Kubernetes clusters end-to-end.
• Hands-on Kubernetes operations, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting.
• On-call rotations and production incident management experience.
• Infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows.
• Solid Linux administration and debugging skills.
• Experience with containerized and cloud-native infrastructure.
• Understanding of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and security.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve self-hosted Kubernetes platforms across deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations.
• Maintain platform reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and troubleshooting.
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure including networking, observability, storage, and platform services.
• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment processes, and operational efficiency.
• Operate and troubleshoot Linux systems, container platforms, and distributed infrastructure.
• Implement Kubernetes networking and security best practices, including cluster hardening and access controls.
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, operations, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to platform standards, documentation, and operational best practices.

Skills

Kubernetes administration

Linux

Ansible

GitOps

CI/CD

Python/Bash/Go

AI-powered tooling

Tools

Kubernetes

Ansible

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Why Verda

• Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).
• Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.
• 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.
• An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

Practicalities

• Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki office 3 days per week. Don’t worry - you won’t be alone or hangry there. (We keep a stocked fridge…)
• Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and improve self-hosted Kubernetes platforms across deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations
• Maintain platform reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and troubleshooting
• Manage Kubernetes infrastructure including networking, observability, storage, and platform services
• Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment processes, and operational efficiency
• Operate and troubleshoot Linux systems, container platforms, and distributed infrastructure
• Implement Kubernetes networking and security best practices, including cluster hardening and access controls
• Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, operations, and troubleshooting
• Contribute to platform standards, documentation, and operational best practices

Key Competencies

• 5+ years operating production Kubernetes environments
• Strong experience managing self-hosted Kubernetes clusters end-to-end
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Experience with on-call rotations and production incident management
• Strong background in infrastructure automation (Ansible), GitOps, and CI/CD
• Solid Linux administration and debugging skills
• Experience with containerized and cloud-native infrastructure
• Understanding of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and platform security
• Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)
• Comfortable using AI-powered tooling to improve engineering workflows
• Strong collaboration and communication skills

Nice to Have

• Experience with Rancher and Cilium
• Familiarity with Kubernetes security policies and cluster hardening
• Experience with GPU workloads, AI/ML infrastructure, or NVIDIA container runtimes
• Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes ecosystem tools (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, operators)
• Knowledge of distributed systems, storage, and high-availability environments