Platform Engineer

Confidential Jobs; Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Platform Development team. You will design, build, and run the internal platform that product engineering teams depend on: secure, self-service Azure infrastructure delivered through GitOps and infrastructure as code, engineered for a 99.99% uptime target.

This is a hands-on role with 4-6 years of experience expected. You will automate toil, shorten the path from commit to production, and improve cost efficiency while ensuring

Qualifications

• 4-6 years hands-on experience in platform engineering, infra, or related discipline.
• Experience building and operating an internal developer platform as a product.
• Proficient with GitOps, Terraform, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads on Azure.
• Strong focus on uptime, SLOs, and cost optimisation in cloud environments.
• Ability to operate across multiple teams and drive incident response and blameless post-incident reviews.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the internal developer platform as a product with self-service capabilities.
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform.
• Own platform stability and availability with a 99.99% uptime target.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation through rightsizing, autoscaling, and reserved capacity.
• Run GitOps-based delivery on Kubernetes with FluxCD and create reliable pipelines.
• Package workloads with Docker and Kubernetes across environments.
• Improve observability with metrics, logs, traces, and alerting for services.
• Embed non-functional requirements like security and performance into platform design by default.

Skills

FluxCD

Terraform

Azure cloud

Azure DevOps

Kubernetes

Docker

99.99% uptime

Cloud cost management

Tools

FluxCD

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Azure DevOps

PowerShell

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Job description

We represent a highly reputable and globally recognized financial services company. With a strong focus on online trading and investment solutions, our organization has built a solid reputation in the industry.

We specialize in providing a wide range of trading instruments to our diverse clientele, including foreign exchange (Forex) currency pairs, commodities, indices, cryptocurrencies, and more. Our advanced trading platforms empower traders worldwide to access the global financial markets and execute their trading strategies effectively.

Our company operates globally, catering to clients from various regions and jurisdictions. We adhere to regulatory frameworks in each country where we operate, ensuring compliance and offering a secure trading environment for our clients. We prioritise client protection and maintain strict confidentiality in all our dealings.

Position Purpose

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to join our Platform Development team. You will design, build, and run the internal platform that our product engineering teams depend on: secure, self-service Azure infrastructure delivered through GitOps and infrastructure as code, engineered for a 99.99% uptime target.

This is a hands-on engineering role with 4-6 years of experience expected. You will treat the platform as a product, owning its stability, performance, and running cost. Expect to spend your time automating away toil, shortening the path from commit to production, and making the platform both cheaper and more reliable quarter over quarter.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate our internal developer platform as a product, with paved paths, golden templates, and self-service capabilities for product teams
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform
• Own platform stability and availability against a 99.99% uptime target, including SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
• Design for resilience: high availability, multi-zone deployments, graceful degradation, backup and disaster recovery, and regular failure testing
• Drive cloud cost optimisation through rightsizing, autoscaling, reserved capacity, spot workloads, and removal of idle resources
• Build cost visibility and accountability, tagging and attributing spend so teams can see and manage the cost of what they run
• Run GitOps-based delivery on Kubernetes with FluxCD, keeping cluster state declarative, reviewable, and reproducible
• Build and evolve Azure DevOps pipelines for reliable, low-friction deployments, including one-click releases, safe rollbacks, and parameterised builds
• Package and standardise workloads with Docker and Kubernetes across environments
• Improve observability across the platform with metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerting so teams can see, measure, and debug their own services
• Reduce operational noise: tune alerts, remove recurring failure modes, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to permanent fixes
• Embed non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, and cost into platform design by default rather than as an afterthought
• Partner with product engineering teams to fold platform and operational concerns into design, build, and release
• Provide Level 2/3 support for platform components, finding root causes and shipping permanent fixes
• Continuously reduce manual work, cycle time, and operational overhead across the engineering organisation

Requirements

Experience

4-6 years of hands‑on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.

Must-have skills

• FluxCD, for GitOps-based continuous delivery on Kubernetes
• Terraform, for infrastructure as code at scale
• Azure cloud, including core services, networking, identity, and governance
• Azure DevOps, including pipelines, repos, and release automation
• Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production clusters
• Docker, including container build, image hygiene, and runtime fundamentals
• Running highly available production systems and holding availability targets such as 99.99%
• Cloud cost management and optimisation on Azure

Good-to-have skills

• Cloud security, including posture management, secrets handling, and policy enforcement
• GitOps practices and tooling beyond FluxCD
• ArgoCD
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and modern observability pipelines
• PowerShell scripting and automation
• Site Reliability Engineering practices such as SLOs, error budgets, and chaos testing
• FinOps practices and cloud cost governance

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities
• A product mindset, treating internal engineers as your customers
• Sound judgement under pressure during incidents, with a calm and structured approach
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and managing competing priorities
• Proactive, with a bias towards continuous improvement