Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer
Role
• Provide full lifecycle support to our internal Kubernetes platform including provision upgrade etc.
• Develop tools and automations to manage platform infrastructure and services lifecycle.
• Improve reliability quality and time to perform IT changes.
• Provide operational support and consultancy for multiple software development teams.
• Measure and optimize system performance and resource utilization and plan for future capacity.
• Build dashboards and visualizations to graph system health.
• Gather and analyze metrics from cluster components to assist in fault finding.
• Balance feature fastrelease and reliability.
Requirements
• Solid knowledge with practical handson of container and Kubernetes production support and surrounding ecosystems.
• Core competencies: Linux OS Container Kubernetes (Anthos) and Kubernetes components like Istio (Anthos Service Mesh) NGINX (as a Kubernetes Ingress Controller) Portworx (softwaredefined storage PVCs) ACM (Anthos Configuration Manager).
• Engineering skillset to manage infrastructure as code using shell languages (Bash) Python (preferred) or Golang GitOps and pipeline.
• Experience with infrastructure support and operation automation following software lifecycle practice.
• Accept flexible working hours including work at weekend.
• Good written oral and reading in English.
• Preferably located in UK working closely with the team based in India and China and sometimes with others in the UK and/or US.