Platform Automation Engineer (SRE Full Stack)

About the role

A partner institution is investing in its internal engineering platforms so that technology teams can rely more on self-service and less on manual operations. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will own internal platform products from first idea to live operation while staying close enough to the code to set the engineering standard. The work is measured by real adoption.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and grow a team of site reliability and software engineers, and set standards for code quality, reviews, testing and documentation.
• Own a set of internal automation products: shape the roadmap with business and technology stakeholders, drive adoption and track reliability and efficiency.
• Design and build full-stack tools, APIs and reusable services that turn manual operations tasks (deployment, recovery, routine work) into automated, self-service workflows.
• Run the platforms on containerised private cloud infrastructure, owning observability, performance, incident response and root cause analysis.
• Lead architecture and design decisions, including integration patterns and API standards.

Required profile

• At least 8 years in software engineering.
• Experience building APIs, microservices and enterprise applications.
• Confident working with several stakeholder groups in a large organisation.
• Nice to have: built a platform or product from scratch; a background in enterprise infrastructure and operations; a degree in computer science, engineering, IT or a related field.

Required skills

• Strong full-stack development: a Python web framework and a modern front-end framework.
• Kubernetes or OpenShift in private cloud or on-premise environments.
• Solid DevOps and CI/CD practice, plus monitoring, logging and reliability engineering.
• Nice to have: Terraform or Ansible, and tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace or Datadog.