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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Incident
- **Location:** UK (Remote available)
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, Google Cloud, Terraform
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/platform-engineer-incident-io-8117838

## About the Role

* Deep technical expertise in infrastructure and tooling, including Terraform, CI/CD systems, and deployment pipelines.
 * Hands-on experience building and maintaining infrastructure that supports high-performing engineering teams at scale.
 * Experience working with cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
 * Strong problem-solving skills with a focus on reliability, scalability, and performance.
 * Ability to work collaboratively with engineers across teams to improve infrastructure and developer workflows.

## Description

Our Platform Engineers are the people behind the curtain making sure everything runs smoothly. They own the infrastructure, deployment systems, and CI/CD pipelines that keep our product engineers moving fast without breaking things. If product engineers are the chefs, the platform team is the kitchen; designing, maintaining, and scaling the tools that make everything possible.

The current team consists of two highly capable engineers. As we grow, this role will play a key part in building and maintaining infrastructure to support future scaling, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and developer experience.

Our stack includes Terraform for infrastructure as code, deployment systems built around modern CI/CD practices, and integrations with Google Cloud Platform., * Designing, building, and maintaining infrastructure that enables fast, reliable, and secure product delivery.

 * Improving and maintaining CI/CD pipelines to streamline deployments and increase reliability.
 * Contributing to infrastructure reliability and ensuring systems are designed for resilience and growth.
 * Collaborating with product engineers to improve developer experience and support smooth delivery processes.
 * Identifying and implementing improvements to deployment systems, observability, and automation.


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