Infrastructure / Platform Engineer

About the role

An Infrastructure / Platform Engineer is sought to build, operate and continuously improve modern enterprise platforms for cloud-native applications. This is a hands-on role covering infrastructure, automation, cloud-native platforms, identity and access management and observability, working closely with infrastructure, security, application development and operations teams.

Key responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve enterprise infrastructure and application platforms.
• Support virtualisation, software-defined networking, container and PaaS environments.
• Automate infrastructure and platform provisioning using Infrastructure as Code, scripting, CI/CD and GitOps.
• Support identity and access management integrations (LDAP, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML).
• Implement and support monitoring, logging, metrics and distributed tracing.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across infrastructure, networking, operating systems, platforms and applications.
• Support platform upgrades, lifecycle management, capacity planning and reliability improvements.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, security, application and operations teams on platform design and delivery.
• Participate in 24x7 support and on-call activities.

Required profile

• Diploma or degree in Computing, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.
• Good understanding of infrastructure, networking, security and application concepts.
• Comfortable working with Linux and troubleshooting production issues.
• Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving and communication skills.
• Strong interest in automation, reliability and continuous improvement.

Required skills

• Container platforms, Kubernetes or PaaS; Infrastructure as Code and declarative infrastructure management.
• CI/CD, Git, GitOps and automation tools.
• Identity and access management concepts (LDAP, OAuth, OIDC, SAML).
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces and OpenTelemetry.
• Technologies used include VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, vSAN, NSX, Aria Operations, Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Tanzu, Kong, RHEL, Ubuntu, Windows Server, Azure DevOps, Concourse, Argo CD, Terraform, Ansible, Bash and Python.