Platform Engineer - Hybrid, Kubernetes & Cloud

Kaluza; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Kaluza is seeking a Platform Engineer to advance our internal developer platform. You will shape how developers interact with cloud infrastructure, reduce toil, and drive productivity with secure, cost-efficient operations.

Join a global team delivering scalable solutions across multiple clouds and Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on operator-friendly tooling and strong collaboration with engineering and site reliability functions.

Qualifications

• Experience building and shipping production applications.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms AWS/GCP/Azure.
• Strong interest in creating/maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Foundations in distributed systems.
• Experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure as Code technologies.

Responsibilities

• Engineering Foundations: build scalable, reliable developer platform for seamless development, deployment, and operations.
• Automation & Tooling: create tools to simplify platform use and boost efficiency.
• Infrastructure as Code: use Terraform, Helm, Crossplane to provision cloud resources; promote GitOps.
• Monitoring & Observability: establish robust monitoring and logging with SRE collaboration.
• Security & Reliability: apply security best practices; participate in on-call rota.
• Stakeholder Coordination: manage upgrades and hold service providers accountable.

Skills

Production apps

Communication

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

Distributed systems

CI/CD

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Crossplane

GitOps tooling

Job description

Kaluza is seeking a Platform Engineer to advance our internal developer platform. You will shape how developers interact with cloud infrastructure, reduce toil, and drive productivity with secure, cost-efficient operations.

Join a global team delivering scalable solutions across multiple clouds and Kubernetes clusters, with a focus on operator-friendly tooling and strong collaboration with engineering and site reliability functions.