Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, Observability & Reliability

United States Digital Space LLC; Reading; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Destination Earth Data Bridges seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer (A2) to advance platform engineering and observability for application deployments. You will join the Platform Engineering Team within the Computing Department, delivering scalable container orchestration and reliable deployment pipelines.

The role covers automation, monitoring, and on-call support, with a focus on reliability engineering across distributed teams and data centers.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work in a geographically distributed team.
• Advanced university degree (EQF level 6) or equivalent industry experience.
• Desirable knowledge: Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, ELK or similar; Application performance monitoring; NO-SQL (MongoDB), SQL (PostgreSQL or MySQL)

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support a container orchestration infrastructure in multiple DestinE Data Bridges
• Automate the deployment of open source, commercial and proprietary software to Destination Earth containers, VMs or bare metal
• Develop observability capabilities for Destination Earth services and for the underlying systems
• Implement systems to monitor the performance of the Data Bridges PaaS/IaaS and interface with the providers and hosting data centres to ensure system-level capability and performance
• Contribute to the design and implementation of observability and event collection and analysis
• Advocate for reliability engineering within Destination Earth and its partners
• Participate in regular 24‑hour on‑call rotas for any critical systems and services in the relevant areas (subject to training and contract length)

Skills

Excellent interpersonal and commu­n 2

Strong analytical and problem-solving

Self-motivated

Distributed team collaboration

Proactive continuous improvement

Education

Advanced university degree (EQF level 6) or equivalent industry experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Helm

Docker

OpenStack

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Job description

Destination Earth Data Bridges seeks a Cloud Platform Engineer (A2) to advance platform engineering and observability for application deployments. You will join the Platform Engineering Team within the Computing Department, delivering scalable container orchestration and reliable deployment pipelines.

The role covers automation, monitoring, and on-call support, with a focus on reliability engineering across distributed teams and data centers.