Platform Engineer- Senior

Responsibilities

• Design and build self-service infrastructure and developer tooling to enhance engineering effectiveness.
• Improve the developer experience by creating platform abstractions that reduce complexity and accelerate delivery.
• Enable teams to own and operate their services autonomously by continuously refining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code (IaC).
• Improve system transparency for our teams by enhancing the observability stack using tools like Prometheus, Grafana and OpenTelemetry.
• Take initiative to identify inefficiencies in the platform and plan with Senior Engineers and Lead for the solutions to be included in the roadmap.
• Implement best practices for resiliency and reliability to ensure platform stability and reduce single points of failure
• Work together with the Information and Cyber Security teams to help embed security best practices into infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and automation frameworks.
• Continuously optimize cloud resources and engineering tools to remain cost efficient.

Technology

• Experience in cloud platforms with a focus on building and maintaining platform services for developer enablement.
• Strong IaC concepts and language agnostic automation skills. We at Oaknorth do not believe that different tools, languages or technology should ever be a barrier.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms with a strong understanding of the core containerisation concepts.
• Experienced in designing, implementing CI/CD pipelines with an emphasis on deployment automation and reliability thus adding to developer experience.
• Knowledge of observability, logging, and monitoring best practices.
• A collaborative and product-minded approach, focusing on enabling engineering teams.
• Enjoy collaborating with engineers, security and product teams while working in an Agile setup
• Good communication skills that make it easy to understand complex technical ideas.
• A low ego working style that supports open collaboration and encourages everyone to share ideas.

Nice to Have

• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. financial services), with a focus on incorporating compliance, security, data protection, and risk management obligations into solutions.
• Previous software development experience, bringing valuable technical perspective and empathy for the needs of developers.