Platform Engineer: Scale, Automate & Secure Cloud Platform

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

Job summary

Kaluza, the Energy Intelligence Platform, is seeking a Platform Engineer to evolve our internal developer platform. Based in the UK, you\'ll work with software teams to own technical decisions, drive best practices, and optimize cloud operations at scale.

You will design scalable foundations, automate provisioning with Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane, and strengthen security and observability across the platform. The role reports to Elinor Ni Chathain and offers collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Production systems design, build and operate at scale.
• Strong leadership and collaboration with a passion for mentoring.
• Deep cloud experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable, reliable internal developer platform.
• Drive self-service tooling and reduce platform complexity.
• Automate provisioning with Terraform, Helm and Crossplane; adopt GitOps.
• Establish robust monitoring and observability with SRE collaboration.
• Embed security controls and participate in on-call rota.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate with stakeholders.

Skills

Production systems

Technical leadership

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

GitOps

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Terraform

Helm

Crossplane

Job description

Kaluza, the Energy Intelligence Platform, is seeking a Platform Engineer to evolve our internal developer platform. Based in the UK, you\'ll work with software teams to own technical decisions, drive best practices, and optimize cloud operations at scale.

You will design scalable foundations, automate provisioning with Terraform, Helm, and Crossplane, and strengthen security and observability across the platform. The role reports to Elinor Ni Chathain and offers collaboration across teams.