DevOps Platform Engineer

This is a hands-on role focused on Kubernetes, Linux administration, automation, monitoring, and platform reliability. You’ll play a key part in ensuring critical systems remain secure, scalable and highly available while supporting engineering teams across a global business., * Building, managing and scaling Kubernetes clusters across cloud and on-premise environments.

• Supporting and administering MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB databases.
• Managing monitoring, alerting and logging platforms.
• Automating infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code and scripting.
• Maintaining high availability and resilience across critical systems.
• Managing access controls and permissions within cloud platforms.
• Troubleshooting, performance tuning and platform optimisation.
• Developing technical standards, best practices and documentation.
• Providing technical support and guidance to internal engineering teams.

We’re keen to speak with candidates who have experience in some or all of the following:

• Hands-on administration of sharded MongoDB clusters.
• Building and managing Kubernetes environments, including GKE and self-managed clusters.
• Designing and supporting highly available, resilient infrastructure.
• Monitoring and observability tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, ELK Stack and rsyslog.
• Infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, Packer and Bash.
• Strong Linux administration experience, particularly Ubuntu environments.
• Exposure to medium or large-scale business environments.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Experience collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones.