Platform Engineer — AI-Ready Cloud & Observability

Acquire Intelligence; Pasig; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Intelligence is seeking a Platform Engineer to help grow a mature cloud platform on GCP, powering our lending services. You will join a small, high-trust team led by the Cloud Platform Lead, owning meaningful problems end-to-end and shaping the practice as it matures.

Responsibilities include enabling safe AI adoption, API governance, platform operations, and cost visibility, while improving deployment pipelines, observability, and security controls to meet SOC2 requirements.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in platform/DevOps/SRE/cloud engineering.
• Hands-on with a major public cloud (GCP preferred) and Kubernetes (GKE or equivalent).
• Experience maintaining and upgrading live platforms (version upgrades, capacity tuning, incident response).
• Experience in regulated or security-sensitive environments (e.g., financial services, SOC2/ISO) is a strong advantage.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, especially in emerging areas like AI enablement.

Responsibilities

• Enable safe AI adoption: Build foundations that allow responsible AI innovation, including vendor discovery, security reviews, AI observability, and cost visibility, while establishing guardrails.
• Deliver platform capabilities: Support initiatives such as API overhaul, governance of customer auth systems, platform operations, and technical debt reduction.
• Maintain scalability and stability: Run platform and infrastructure upgrades, improve security, and develop reusable infrastructure patterns.
• Drive cost efficiency: Improve cost visibility (compute and AI), optimize configurations, and apply cost-saving strategies.
• Improve developer experience: Enhance deployment pipelines, observability, documentation, and change management.
• Strengthen incident and alert management: Improve alerting standards, resolution processes, and metric retention.
• Uphold security and compliance: Maintain IAM, secrets management, and audit/change controls aligned with compliance requirements.
• Help build the practice: Contribute to standards, ADRs, runbooks, and ways of working.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

Automation

AI readiness

Tools

GKE

ArgoCD

Helm

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

GitHub Actions

IAM

Secret Manager

Cloud SQL

Terraform

Job description

Acquire Intelligence is seeking a Platform Engineer to help grow a mature cloud platform on GCP, powering our lending services. You will join a small, high-trust team led by the Cloud Platform Lead, owning meaningful problems end-to-end and shaping the practice as it matures.

Responsibilities include enabling safe AI adoption, API governance, platform operations, and cost visibility, while improving deployment pipelines, observability, and security controls to meet SOC2 requirements.