Senior Platform Engineer; Site Reliability Engineering​/Cloud

Requirements

• We are seeking a hands‑on Platform Engineer with a passion for Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Cloud technologies
• 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 containerised 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

• 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 organisations unlock broader talent pools, make fairer decisions, and expand access to opportunity at scale
• 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
• 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