Senior Platform Engineer

As we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and redefine what's possible in the maritime industry, we're looking for exceptional talent to join our fast-growing team.

Ocean Infinity is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate & evolve the systems, tooling & infrastructure that support our software delivery & platform operations.

In this role you'll be taking ownership of key platform components & contribute to the foundations that enable engineering teams to build, deploy & operate services reliably at scale. You'll work on improving internal tooling, strengthening observability and operational practices & ensuring teams have the self-service capabilities required to confidently manage their services.

You'll report to the Core Engineering Lead & collaborate closely with the teams across the organization providing hands-on technical support, architectural input & practical solutions that strengthen the company's core engineering platform.

Requirements

What you will do! 🚀

• Design and evolve core platform systems, Contribute to architecture & implementation strategy of cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD & internal tooling foundations that support the operations across the organization
• Drive High-impact Platform Improvements, Own & deliver enhancements across infrastructure, deployments & automation to improve reliability, scalability & performance
• Build for resilience and efficiency, Develop platform capabilities that are secure, fault-tolerant & easy for product teams to adopt
• Enhance developer productivity Create internal tools, services & workflows that aim to reduce friction & help engineers build, test and deploy faster & smoother
• Strengthen observability and operations, Improve monitoring, logging & alerting to ensure visibility across environments and support fast, effective incident response
• Solve complex technical challenges, Investigate & resolve issues across distributed systems, cloud services, networking & Kubernetes - & translate findings into measurable improvements
• Collaborate across teams, Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, troubleshoot integration issues & ensure services run reliably on the platform
• Evaluate and introduce new technologies, Stay current with cloud-native & DevOps ecosystems – bringing in tools & approaches that aim to improve delivery speed, reliability and developer experience
• Promote platform standards and best practices, Help establish and reinforce patterns that lead to secure, scalable and well-operated services

What we look for!🔍

• You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
• You bring in 5+ years of experience working in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps or infrastructure-focused software development
• You have a strong experience with Cloud environments (Azure preferred) and understand the fundamentals of cloud networking, identity, compute & storage
• You have deep, hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production – including deployments, troubleshooting, networking & day-to-day operations
• You are comfortable running & operating containerized services at scale
• You work confidently with infrastructure-as-code to automate deployments environments and operational workflows
• You have experience owning, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling or automation that supports development operations
• You’re comfortable troubleshooting issues across distributed systems, networking, containers and cloud services
• You have a strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting and appreciate the value that a strong observability setup brings to an organization

Nice to have! ✨

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform as familiarity with modern Kubernetes configuration approaches – operators, GitOps controllers, or similar
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle & multi-cluster patterns
• Experience operating & supporting platforms across Azure and on-prem environments, including practical experience with Windows Servers & Linux systems
• Solid understanding of distributed system concepts, including service networking, messaging patterns & event-driven designs
• Good grasp of software architecture fundamentals such as CQRS, domain-driven principles & how backend services interact with modern cloud-native environments
• Understanding of structured observability concepts – metrics, traces, logs – even if not specialized in any single stack

Benefits

*Salary: £100,000 Per Annum*