Senior Platform Engineer (Crossplane & Backstage)

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to design build and operate scalable production-grade platforms and self-service capabilities that empower engineering teams. You will shape cloud-native foundations automation and internal developer platforms that improve reliability speed and developer experience.

What you will do:

Design and build self-service platforms platform APIs automation and system-level tooling used by other engineering teams.

Architect and operate highly available secure and scalable cloud-native platforms on AWS.

Implement and evolve Infrastructure as Code using Terraform CDK Pulumi and Crossplane.

Build and operate Kubernetes environments with strong GitOps practices (ArgoCD / Flux Helm and Kustomize).

Develop Kubernetes Operators and contribute to platform extensibility.

Implement monitoring observability and reliability practices using CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Loki and X-Ray.

Drive CI/CD and DevOps practices with tools such as GitHub Actions and GitLab CI/CD.

Apply AWS best practices and the Well-Architected Framework across platform design and operations.

Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce toil improve developer experience and enable self-service consumption of platform capabilities.

What you bring:

5 years of experience in Platform Engineering building self-service platforms and abstractions for engineering teams.

6 years of hands-on experience with public cloud with deep expertise in AWS.

6 years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.

23 years of software engineering experience using languages such as Java JavaScript Golang or Python.

Expert knowledge of AWS cloud architecture services and the Well-Architected Framework.

Strong experience with Kubernetes and container orchestration principles (CKA certification preferred).

Strong experience with GitOps using ArgoCD / Flux and Helm / Kustomize.

Hands-on experience with Crossplane ArgoCD and Backstage (non-negotiable).

Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators (non-negotiable).

Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions (CloudWatch Prometheus Grafana Loki X-Ray).

Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions GitLab CI/CD).

Proven track record of building complex production-grade platforms and making them available for self-service use.

Solid understanding of cloud-native systems distributed systems and service architecture trade-offs.