Platform Engineer

Strive Gaming; North East; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic tech company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Platform Engineer to design and maintain platform services that empower engineering teams. The successful candidate will drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, enhance system reliability, and ensure security across infrastructure. This role is crucial for shaping the developer experience and requires strong skills in Infrastructure as Code, AWS, and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have a solid understanding of security best practices and the ability to innovate in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines to support software delivery.
• Capability to develop tooling and automation for infrastructure and deployments.
• Ability to improve reliability and scalability of existing systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain platform services and infrastructure used by product engineering teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and product teams to understand platform needs.
• Participate in on-call rotations and help troubleshoot production issues.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

AWS

Strong linux skills

Git

Kubernetes

Docker

Strong security mindset

Tools

Argo

ELK/LGTM stack

Prometheus

DataDog

Grafana

Helm

Bash/shell scripting

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