Platform Engineer

springernature; Lisboa; Presencial; EUR 70 000 - 110 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Springer Nature is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to shape, build, and improve unified platforms enabling product teams to deliver value. You will contribute to Platform as a Service (PaaS), drive developer tool adoption, and enhance usability, performance, and security at scale.

You will join a distributed Engineering Enablement team with a global footprint, including Lisbon, and work on Kubernetes-based platforms, observability, CI/CD, and databases across global deployments.

Qualificações

• Experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Proficiency with Kubernetes deployments and writing Kubernetes operators/controllers.
• Programming experience in Go, Python, JVM languages or similar modern languages.
• Experience with automation patterns and version control.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and observability tooling.

Responsabilidades

• Meet delivery responsibilities as part of an engineering team focused on the Engineering Platform.
• Build, operate and maintain core capabilities and components of the Engineering Platform.
• Treat the Platform as a product with real customers, not just infrastructure.
• Design automation, tooling and self-service mechanisms to accelerate product teams.
• Own and operate platform services end-to-end, including clusters, automation, and CI/CD/Observability systems.
• Provide technical support and feedback to product teams and influence the product roadmap.

Conhecimentos

Cloud infrastructure (AWS/GCP)

Kubernetes

Golang / Go

CI/CD automation

Ferramentas

Terraform

Ansible

Concourse

GitHub Actions

Descrição da oferta de emprego

We're looking for an experienced and engaged Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to help us shape, build and improve our unified platforms and their integrated capabilities to enable Springer Nature's product teams to focus on delivering value

About the role

As a Platform Engineer within SN Technology Engineering, you will play a key role in shaping, building, and improving Springer Nature's unified platforms and the integrated capabilities that empower product teams across the organisation. Our platforms serve hundreds of developers globally and support 100s of millions of euros in revenue. Your work will directly contribute to providing a reliable, secure, standardised foundation that accelerates product delivery.

Together with the team, you will share the responsibility of developing and improving our platforms along with maintenance tasks, documentation, running updates and keeping our systems secure. While you help to push the Platform-First-Strategy, you prioritise Platform as a Service (PaaS), drive adoption of best-in-class developer tools, and continuously improve the platform's usability, performance, and security.

As a department, we focus and engage on providing a unified and standardised platform by using modern and open standards. Our approach is encompassed by defined core capabilities, such as observability, continuous integration, security and storage. We therefore closely collaborate in our department so that the core capabilities are not only tightly integrated but also provide a unified experience for/to the product teams in Springer Nature.

About the t eam

Engineering Enablement consists of around 60 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. As part of the Engineering department at Springer Nature Technology, we provide platform engineering expertise to support core capabilities and use cases across run time to databases to observability, ci/cd, and SRE.

You will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. We are a very distributed department, sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, and Lisbon.

Our Technology

We have built platforms serving hundreds of developers around the world at scale. We are making more and more use of Kubernetes as a backend container platform and integrating this into our platform offering. We are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to build a new PaaS that will co-exist with the current Cloud Foundry Platform, as well as managing an internal database platform that runs over 1,200 database servers.

Out tech stack focuses on:

• Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE
• Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry
• Concourse, GitHub Actions
• Terraform, Ansible
• Postgres, Mongo, MySQL
• GCP, AWS

Role Responsibilities

• Meet your delivery and participation responsibilities as a contributor to an engineering team , working on the Engineering Platform.
• Build, operate and maintain the core capabilities and components of the Engineering Platform
• Treat the Platform and its components as a product, with real customers instead of just infrastructure to manage.
• Build and design automation, tooling and self-service mechanisms, so product teams can move faster .
• Own and operate platform services end to end , this may include: managing Kubernetes clusters, c ontribut ing to automation and tooling , or building and operating CI/CD and Observability systems .
• Provide technical support and consultancy to product teams, and playback what you learn from them into the product roadmap.

Experience, Skills & Qualifications

Essential

• You have experience operating , automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (in either AWS or GCP) , including contributing to system architecture and design.
• With expertise in at least one of the following: (storage, routing, cloud networking, org policy definition and automation, IAM)
• You have programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages.
• You have experience with general automation patterns and version controlling
• You have experience in managing Kubernetes deployments , as well as writing Kubernetes operators or controllers.
• You have taken part in projects from design to production.
• You've worked in multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering shared outcomes within the software delivery lifecycle.

Desirable

• You have written and maintained code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc.
• You have written applications using Go and have a thorough understanding of its language features and idiomatic practices.
• You can demonstrate your experience with some of the core technologies in use (Kubernetes, Kubevela , GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, Mongo)
• You have experience in building APIs, exposing components in a p