Intermediate Platform Engineer

About the job Intermediate Platform Engineer

A growing technology company is looking for an Intermediate Dev Ops / Platform Engineer to help build and scale the platform infrastructure behind modern AI-driven products. The role focuses on improving cloud infrastructure, deployment pipelines, reliability, and operational excellence across Kubernetes-based environments.

You will work closely with engineering, AI, and security teams to automate infrastructure, improve developer experience, and ensure the platform is secure, scalable, and highly reliable as the product grows.

Key Responsibilities

Improve infrastructure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency across cloud and Kubernetes environments

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to accelerate deployments and reduce failure rates

Implement Infrastructure-as-Code to standardise environments and reduce configuration drift

Manage containerised workloads using Docker and Kubernetes
, including autoscaling and secure deployments

Improve observability, monitoring, and incident response processes

Support operational best practices including backups, patching, access control, and disaster recovery

Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and production runtime issues

Contribute to reusable tooling, documentation, and platform standards

Requirements

3+ years experience in Dev Ops, SRE, or Platform Engineering roles

Strong experience supporting production systems and cloud infrastructure

Scripting with Python or Bash

Experience with
Docker, Kubernetes, Helm

CI/CD tools such as Git Hub Actions, Jenkins, Git Lab CI or Drone

Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform or Pulumi

Experience with
AWS and/or Azure

Knowledge of PostgreSQL, Redis
, and cloud networking fundamentals

Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or Open Search