Senior Platform Engineer
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Job Description
Join our Engineering Acceleration Team within the Technology & Innovation Group and play a key role in evolving our core infrastructure and developer platform capabilities.
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join the team to bring architectural insight a deep understanding of modern platform engineering practices and a passion for enabling others through automation and infrastructure. You will also mentor engineers influence platform strategy and engage with stakeholders across the business.
As a Senior Platform Engineer in this team you will:
Design and drive the evolution of Kubernetes clusters across onprem and cloud environments.
Lead the definition and adoption of best practices for container orchestration infrastructureascode and continuous delivery.
Engage with engineering and infrastructure stakeholders to understand and influence technical requirements and priorities.
Mentor less experienced engineers and support knowledgesharing across teams.
Ensure the scalability security and reliability of our software services in production environments
Responsibilities:
Platform Infrastructure Management
Architect deploy and operate Kubernetes clusters (AKS/EKS/onprem) across hybridcloud and virtualised environments.
Define and continuously improve platform architecture with a focus on scale tenancy and operational resilience.
Champion GitOps workflows and scalable deployment strategies across the organisation.
Cloud Infrastructure & Automation
Help to lead the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Helm) for consistent and repeatable provisioning.
Build reusable modules and automation for developer and infrastructure teams.
Contribute to shared pipelines templates and documentation to enable selfservice.
Develop and maintain Cloud Operators for managing application lifecycles and platform services.
Lead the implementation of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Helm) for consistent and repeatable provisioning.
CI/CD and Software Delivery Enablement
Extend and manage CI/CD pipelines using Bitbucket Pipeline or Azure DevOps.
Support build packaging deployment and lifecycle management processes.
Help teams adopt modern delivery practices through tooling and coaching.
Provide architectural input on how platform choices impact software delivery and operability.
Join wider Application Development squads to accelerate delivery of key projects.
Observability Site Reliability
Operate production workloads with an SRE mindset: measure reliability define SLOs and reduce toil through automation.
Lead initiatives to reduce operational toil and enhance system resilience through automation.
Participate in incident response conduct root cause analysis and feed improvements into platform design. As well as being available for escalated out of hours calls where needed.
Define and improve availability performance and scalability through platformlevel metrics and service reviews.
Apply security best practices for Kubernetes (RBAC network policies secrets).
Liaise with internal security and compliance stakeholders to ensure governance requirements are met.
Drive adoption of securebydefault practices within platform services.
Support secure identity access and secrets management integrations.
Mentorship and Technical Influence
Coach and mentor engineers on platform tools patterns and architecture.
Contribute to internal documentation training materials and brownbag sessions.
Influence crossteam decisionmaking through clear communication and technical reasoning.
Skills and experience required:
- Degree in Computer Science Systems Engineering or a related field.
Collaborative and adaptable with a platform mindset.
Strong interest in enabling engineering teams through infrastructure and automation.
Confident communicator who can explain infrastructure decisions to developers and nonspecialists.
Works well across teams and disciplines especially in highperformance environments.
Selfmotivated and pragmatic with a continuous improvement approach.
Experience with:
Kubernetes provisioning and lifecycle management (AKS EKS onprem).
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Helm).
Containerisation and orchestration (Docker Helm Operators).
Cloud platforms (Azure AWS).
CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Bitbucket Pipelines GitHub Actions).
GitOps (e.g. ArgoCD FluxCD).
Monitoring logging and alerting (Prometheus Grafana Loki).
Scripting and automation (Python Bash etc.).
Exposure to the following would be beneficial:
Multicloud or hybridcloud architectures.
Security practices for cloudnative platforms.
Cost optimisation strategies in cloud deployments.
Reliabilityfocused engineering (SLOs SLIs error budgets).
Incident response practices and postincident reviews.
Supporting production systems and oncall readiness.
Additional Information :
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Atlassian Williams Racing is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and inclusion. We are happy to discuss reasonable job adjustments.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
