Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud-Native AI Infra

Arbeidsplassen; Bærum; On-site; NOK 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Falkor, a KONGSBERG company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud-native platform supporting AI-enabled services. You will own Kubernetes-based infrastructure, IaC tooling, and platform automation while collaborating with product and data teams to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will combine strong software development skills with platform operations, contributing to security, monitoring, and efficiency in a hybrid Fornebu-based role.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating cloud-native platforms in production.
• Solid hands-on expertise with Kubernetes and Azure.
• Strong software development experience with at least one modern programming language (Python, Go, Java, C#, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining production software systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tooling.
• Good understanding of platform operations, automation, and observability.
• Ability to write maintainable automation scripts (PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar).
• Fluency in English, written and spoken.
• Experience supporting AI or ML workloads in production.
• Exposure to GitOps, service mesh (e.g. Istio), or hybrid infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud-native infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms.
• Provision and manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Pulumi, Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).
• Operate and optimise Kubernetes platforms (AKS) in production.
• Own platform reliability, performance, security, and cost efficiency.
• Share responsibility for platform stability and operational health, contributing to prevention, analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain clear, practical technical documentation and operational runbooks.
• Apply security-by-design principles at platform level, including IAM, RBAC, network policies, and workload isolation.
• Design, develop, and maintain production-quality internal platforms, tools, and services that improve developer productivity and operational efficiency.
• Write clean, maintainable code in at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, Java, C#, or TypeScript.
• Work closely with data and application teams to translate workload needs into robust platform solutions.
• Contribute to building scalable, well-tested systems that other teams can rely on.
• Manage container orchestration using Kubernetes, including deployment, scaling, and network configuration.
• Package and deploy workloads using Helm.
• Troubleshoot platform-level issues related to containers and orchestration.
• Support data-intensive platform components and stateful services at infrastructure level.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and observability using Azure Monitor, Mimir, Grafana, Tempo, or similar tools.
• Build and evolve logging and telemetry pipelines to improve operational insight.
• Reduce operational noise and improve system understanding through telemetry-driven analysis.
• Integrate platform capabilities with CI/CD and GitOps workflows.
• Use tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Argo CD, or Flux.

Skills

Kubernetes

Azure

Python

Go

Java

C#

TypeScript

CI/CD

GitOps

English fluency

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

AKS

Helm

Azure Monitor

Grafana

Tempo

Argo CD

Flux

Istio

Job description

Falkor, a KONGSBERG company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate a cloud-native platform supporting AI-enabled services. You will own Kubernetes-based infrastructure, IaC tooling, and platform automation while collaborating with product and data teams to ensure reliability and scalability.

You will combine strong software development skills with platform operations, contributing to security, monitoring, and efficiency in a hybrid Fornebu-based role.