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.

Requirements

**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.

· 2–3+
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