Platform Engineer

Strive Gaming; Newcastle upon Tyne; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Platform Engineer, where you'll shape the core infrastructure that powers applications and developer workflows. This role focuses on enhancing developer experience, cloud architecture, and CI/CD systems while ensuring security and efficiency. You'll design and maintain platform services, develop automation tools, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver effective solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic environment where your contributions will significantly impact the engineering team's success.

Qualifications

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud services is essential.
• Strong Linux skills and security mindset are crucial for this role.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain platform services and infrastructure for engineering teams.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines and improve system reliability and scalability.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

AWS

Strong Linux skills

CI/CD pipelines

Strong security mindset

Bash/shell scripting

Git

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Grafana

DataDog

Prometheus

ELK/LGTM stack

Argo

Job description

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to join our team and help build the foundation that powers our applications and dev workflows. In this role you'll focus on designing, maintaining, and scaling the core infrastructure, internal platforms and our metrics and logging stacks, enabling engineering teams to ship quickly, reliably, and securely.

You’ll be instrumental in shaping our developer experience, CI/CD systems, cloud architecture, and everything in between - ensuring our platform is resilient, efficient, secure and developer-friendly.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain platform services and infrastructure used by product engineering teams.
• Improve reliability, observability, and scalability of existing systems.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to support software delivery.
• Build tooling and automation that supports self-service infrastructure and deployment.
• Ensure security best practices are followed across infrastructure and deployments.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to understand platform needs and deliver effective solutions.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help troubleshoot production issues.

Tech Requirements (must have):

• IAC - Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• AWS
• Argo
• Strong linux skills
• ELK/LGTM stack knowledge
• Prometheus
• DataDog
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• Docker
• Bash/shell scripting
• Git
• Strong security mindset

Tech (nice to have)

• Crowdstrike
• OnPrem/ESXI
• Windows Server
• EntraID