Senior Platform Engineer; SRE​/Cloud

ABOUT BEAMERY

We are a leading transformational AI platform in the HR technology industry, enabling enterprise companies to create better and fairer talent decisions – by accelerating their recruiting processes, unlocking successful internal mobility opportunities, enabling smarter upskilling initiatives, and facilitating agile workforce planning. We are helping our clients hire and redeploy over a million people annually.

Read more about our work here.

What’s ahead — and why it’s an exciting time to join the team:

Deepening our native integrations with SAP, Workday, Microsoft, and Linked In to seamlessly embed our skills intelligence into the platforms where critical workforce decisions are made.

Embedding our agentic AI to help customers plan smarter for the future—powering workforce strategies, internal mobility, and skills forecasting.

Advancing our use of proprietary LLMs and knowledge graph technology to help organizations unlock broader talent pools, make fairer decisions, and expand access to opportunity at scale.

But it’s not all about creating high‑quality products, we also very much value the company culture we have worked hard to create; built on trust, empathy & honesty ensuring our workforce is able to bring their full selves to work.

ABOUT THE TEAM

The Platform team at Beamery enables engineering teams to build scalable and reliable services by supporting a foundation of tools and common services. These services include our managed Kubernetes clusters, observability tooling, and much more. We’re responsible for setting best practices around incident management and cost controls whilst empowering teams to build it, run it.

We’re a remote team, spread across multiple countries, but our home is in our amazing London HQ.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING AT BEAMERY

• Building and evolving Platform’s managed services and tools to enable teams to run scalable and reliable services
• Driving continuous improvement in incident response across Platform and the wider engineering organisation, including SLOs, alerting, and dashboards
• Working with cutting edge technology in an agile environment
• Designing scalable and secure solutions to complex problems
• Providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers

We are seeking a hands‑on Platform Engineer with a passion for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud technologies. Key skills/experience:

• Hands‑on SRE experience, including being on‑call and maintaining cloud‑based services
• Experience managing Kubernetes production clusters at scale, including cluster upgrades, resource optimization (autoscaling, quotas), and troubleshooting complex networking or scheduling issues.
• Proven track record of managing Kubernetes life cycles, implementing security best practices (RBAC, Network Policies), and maintaining high availability for containerized workloads.
• Experienced with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, particularly proficient in Terraform
• Expertise in building and maintaining complex applications in the cloud
• Some operational experience with our key infrastructure components is desirable, Kafka, Mongo
  
  DB, Postgre
  
  SQL, Elasticsearch, and Istio
• Solid software engineering foundations with the ability to build and maintain production‑grade tooling.
  
  Experience with
  Go would be preferable. NodeJS is a plus.
• Pragmatic problem solver, balancing a number of factors to deliver the best possible solution

Beamery is for Everybody. Diversity and open expression are fundamental to us. We acknowledge the challenges in our industry and strive to develop an inclusive culture where everybody can contribute. We are dedicated to creating an inclusive environment for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, religion, color, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, national origin, age, disability status, or caregiver status. If, for whatever reason, you need us to make reasonable adjustments and adaptations to our recruitment process, please email

Visit our Diversity, Equality and Inclusion page to learn more about progress and commitments.