Robotics Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

Burns Sheehan; Wallingford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Burns Sheehan Ltd is recruiting a Platform Engineer to help build the infrastructure, tooling and deployment capability behind a robotics platform used in live warehouse environments.

This role blends modern platform engineering with robotics-facing challenges, demanding cloud, edge and multi-cloud experience, Kubernetes, Go or TypeScript, and a passion for reliable, scalable software delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong background in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering or site reliability engineering.
• Experience with multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration.
• Hands-on with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform and modern CI/CD tooling.
• Experience building automation frameworks and self-service development platforms.
• Good programming skills in Go or TypeScript and strong observability knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate cloud infrastructure supporting user-facing apps, internal services and deployments.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and developer tooling for multiple teams.
• Manage containerised environments across a multi-cloud setup.
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform and Terraform Cloud.
• Support monitoring, logging, observability and incident response.
• Improve reliability, automation, security hardening and platform maturity.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps best practices.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Go

TypeScript

Observability

Incident response

Automation

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terraform Cloud

Job description

Burns Sheehan Ltd is recruiting a Platform Engineer to help build the infrastructure, tooling and deployment capability behind a robotics platform used in live warehouse environments.

This role blends modern platform engineering with robotics-facing challenges, demanding cloud, edge and multi-cloud experience, Kubernetes, Go or TypeScript, and a passion for reliable, scalable software delivery.