Platform Engineer | Remote

Crossing Hurdles; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Crossing Hurdles seeks a senior cloud infrastructure engineer to own and evolve a production platform. You will design and test scalable, secure distributed systems, and build reproducible containerized environments with reference and defective variants.

You will shape infrastructure requirements, run deterministic tests for integration, load, security, deployment, and recovery, and document technical decisions while mentoring peers.

Qualifications

• Senior-level cloud infrastructure and platform engineering experience.
• Ownership of a production platform and strong distributed systems knowledge.
• Experience with observability, SLOs, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools.
• Debug containerized environments and implement secure service-to-service communications.

Responsibilities

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks across distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible containerized environments with reference solutions and defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements for configuration, topology and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by others.

Skills

Distributed systems

Autoscaling

Observability

IAM and security

Containers and orchestration

Job description

• Create realistic cloud infrastructure tasks involving distributed systems, networking, security, scalability, and reliability.
• Build reproducible, containerized environments with valid reference solutions and intentionally defective variants.
• Define measurable requirements across infrastructure configuration, deployed topology, and runtime behavior.
• Develop deterministic integration, load, security, failure-injection, deployment, and recovery tests.
• Debug environments, document technical decisions, and review tasks created by other experts.

Requirements

• Senior-level cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, or SRE experience, including personal ownership of a production platform.
• Strong knowledge of distributed systems, scalable APIs, queues, autoscaling, durable storage, and partial-failure scenarios.
• Practical experience with IAM, private networking, least-privilege access, and service-to-service security.
• Experience with observability, measurable SLOs, rolling deployments, rollback strategies, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to write infrastructure automation or testing tools and debug containerized environments using a relevant programming language.