Kubernetes Platform Engineer | Linux, CI/CD & Automation

Satellite Office; Eastern Manila District; On-site; PHP 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Aussie Broadband is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and support scalable, reliable platform infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. You will focus on automation, security, and performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver value for internal and external customers.

The role emphasizes IaC, service mesh, and observability, with opportunities to mentor juniors and participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (on-prem & upstream) including cluster lifecycle management and performance tuning.
• Expert-level Linux system administration and orchestration with focus on automation and scale.
• Proven experience designing and operating highly available, distributed systems in production environments.
• Background with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd) and multi-cluster architectures.
• Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Tinkerbell, Helm).
• Security-first mindset in platform and service design—encryption, network segmentation, compliance.
• Familiarity with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Otel, Jaeger).
• Experience with open-source ecosystems and industry standards (CNCF, OCI, IETF).
• Strong GitOps and automation tooling (ArgoCD, Git, CI/CD, Flux).
• Networking concepts in containerised/virtualised environments (BGP, LoadBalancing, Ingress/Egress, eBPF/XDP, VPP).
• Go or Python scripting experience is desirable.
• Demonstrated ability to solve problems and lead when needed; work independently and in teams.

Responsibilities

• Maintain security, reliability, and availability of critical systems infrastructure.
• Design and evolve platform architecture for scalable, observable, secure solutions.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
• Deliver highly available, scalable platforms and services to support growth.
• Build, automate, and enhance on-premises containerised and virtualised workloads with IaC and CI/CD.
• Support development teams with platform capabilities, tooling, and environments.
• Champion reliability practices including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Continuously improve platform performance and developer experience through proactive engineering.
• Contribute to documentation, standards, and knowledge sharing across engineering.
• Mentor junior team members through coaching and training.

Skills

Kubernetes expert

Linux administration

GitOps

Open-source enthusiast

Problem solving

Independent worker

Tools

Kubernetes

Istio

Linkerd

Terraform

Ansible

Tinkerbell

Helm

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

Otel

Jaeger

ArgoCD

Git

CI/CD

Flux

eBPF/XDP

VPP

Go

Python

Job description

Aussie Broadband is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and support scalable, reliable platform infrastructure across on-prem and cloud environments. You will focus on automation, security, and performance, collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver value for internal and external customers.

The role emphasizes IaC, service mesh, and observability, with opportunities to mentor juniors and participate in on-call rotations to ensure platform reliability.