Designs, operates, and evolves cloud-native platform systems, Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling, and automation. Improves reliability, scalability, security, observability, and developer productivity across distributed systems and cloud environments. Troubleshoots networking, containers, and cloud services; supports engineering teams; contributes to architecture and platform standards.
At Ocean Infinity, we're on a bold mission to subsea data using innovative technology.
Using cutting-edge robotics, autonomous technology and world-class software, we're transforming how complex operations are carried out at sea. Our uncrewed systems are making ocean exploration and operations safer, smarter and more sustainable, helping unlock the vast potential of our oceans while reducing environmental impact. 🌍
This isn't a vision for the future. It's happening right now.
As we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and redefine what's possible in the maritime industry, we're looking for exceptional talent to join our fast-growing team.
Ocean Infinity is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to help build, operate & evolve the systems, tooling & infrastructure that support our software delivery & platform operations.
In this role you'll be taking ownership of key platform components & contribute to the foundations that enable engineering teams to build, deploy & operate services reliably at scale. You'll work on improving internal tooling, strengthening observability and operational practices & ensuring teams have the self-service capabilities required to confidently manage their services.
You'll report to the Core Engineering Lead & collaborate closely with the teams across the organization providing hands-on technical support, architectural input & practical solutions that strengthen the company's core engineering platform.
Requirements
What you will do! 🚀
- Design and evolve core platform systems, Contribute to architecture & implementation strategy of cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD & internal tooling foundations that support the operations across the organization
- Drive High-impact Platform Improvements, Own & deliver enhancements across infrastructure, deployments & automation to improve reliability, scalability & performance
- Build for resilience and efficiency, Develop platform capabilities that are secure, fault-tolerant & easy for product teams to adopt
- Enhance developer productivity Create internal tools, services & workflows that aim to reduce friction & help engineers build, test and deploy faster & smoother
- Strengthen observability and operations, Improve monitoring, logging & alerting to ensure visibility across environments and support fast, effective incident response
- Solve complex technical challenges, Investigate & resolve issues across distributed systems, cloud services, networking & Kubernetes - & translate findings into measurable improvements
- Collaborate across teams, Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, troubleshoot integration issues & ensure services run reliably on the platform
- Evaluate and introduce new technologies, Stay current with cloud-native & DevOps ecosystems – bringing in tools & approaches that aim to improve delivery speed, reliability and developer experience
- Promote platform standards and best practices, Help establish and reinforce patterns that lead to secure, scalable and well-operated services
What we look for!🔍
- You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience
- You bring in 5+ years of experience working in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps or infrastructure-focused software development
- You have a strong experience with Cloud environments (Azure preferred) and understand the fundamentals of cloud networking, identity, compute & storage
- You have deep, hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production – including deployments, troubleshooting, networking & day-to-day operations
- You are comfortable running & operating containerized services at scale
- You work confidently with infrastructure-as-code to automate deployments environments and operational workflows
- You have experience owning, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling or automation that supports development operations
- You’re comfortable troubleshooting issues across distributed systems, networking, containers and cloud services
- You have a strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting and appreciate the value that a strong observability setup brings to an organization
Nice to have! ✨
- Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform as familiarity with modern Kubernetes configuration approaches – operators, GitOps controllers, or similar
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle & multi-cluster patterns
- Experience operating & supporting platforms across Azure and on-prem environments, including practical experience with Windows Servers & Linux systems
- Solid understanding of distributed system concepts, including service networking, messaging patterns & event-driven designs
- Good grasp of software architecture fundamentals such as CQRS, domain-driven principles & how backend services interact with modern cloud-native environments
- Understanding of structured observability concepts – metrics, traces, logs – even if not specialized in any single stack
Benefits
*Salary: £100,000 Per Annum*
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