Platform Engineer: Build & Scale Unified PaaS

Springer Nature; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Springer Nature is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to shape, build and improve unified platforms that empower product teams globally. You will work on Kubernetes-based PaaS, CI/CD, observability and security, collaborating with an engineering Enablement team across multiple global locations.

You will drive platform as a service initiatives, contribute to automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities, and support product teams with scalable, secure infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP).
• Programming in Go, Python, JVM languages, or similar.
• Experience in managing Kubernetes deployments and writing operators/controllers.

Responsibilities

• Take active role in the engineering platform team.
• Build, operate and maintain core capabilities of the Engineering Platform.
• Provide technical support to product teams and feed learnings into the product roadmap.
• Develop automation, tooling and self-service mechanisms to speed up delivery.
• Lead end-to-end platform services including clusters, CI/CD and observability.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure experience

Go/Python/JVM programming

Kubernetes deployments

Automation & version control

Production lifecycle knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes API usage

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Springer Nature is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to shape, build and improve unified platforms that empower product teams globally. You will work on Kubernetes-based PaaS, CI/CD, observability and security, collaborating with an engineering Enablement team across multiple global locations.

You will drive platform as a service initiatives, contribute to automation, tooling, and self-service capabilities, and support product teams with scalable, secure infrastructure.