platform engineer for engineering platforms

Springer Nature is an information services company that provides unified engineering platforms and integrated capabilities for product teams. Its platforms support hundreds of developers globally and underpin large-scale revenue-generating products.

• Shape, build, improve, operate, and maintain the Engineering Platform and its core capabilities;
• Contribute to delivery and participation responsibilities as a member of an engineering team;
• Treat the platform and its components as a product with real customers;
• Build and design automation, tooling, and self-service mechanisms for product teams;
• Own and operate platform services end to end, including Kubernetes clusters, automation and tooling, CI/CD, and observability systems;
• Provide technical support and consultancy to product teams;
• Feed customer insights into the product roadmap;
• Take an active role in the team and participate in team ceremonies and day-to-day work;
• Understand the business value delivered and customer needs;
• Develop an understanding of the Engineering Platform and key strategies;
• Create a development plan with the line manager;
• Contribute to platform improvements and select suitable technology solutions;
• Discuss business requirements with stakeholders and product owners;
• Manage container-based runtime platforms;
• Participate in architectural discussions;
• Lead major initiatives;
• Improve system performance and reliability;
• Mitigate risks in shipped products;
• Shape the evolution of the Engineering Platform;
• Support and enable delivery through good practices;
• Participate in user research when applicable;
• Provide actionable feedback to team members and foster a feedback culture;
• Help grow the internal culture through technical share-backs, 10% time, and similar events.

• Experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in AWS or GCP, including contributing to system architecture and design;
• Expertise in at least one of storage, routing, cloud networking, organisation policy definition and automation, or IAM;
• Programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages;
• Experience with general automation patterns and version control;
• Experience managing Kubernetes deployments and writing Kubernetes operators or controllers;
• Experience taking projects from design through production;
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams focused on shared outcomes across the software delivery lifecycle;
• Nice to have: Code interfacing with the Kubernetes API, Go applications and idiomatic Go practices, Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, Mongo, API development.

• No conditions specified