Platform Engineer
ValarianSovereign AI company
London, United KingdomSenior
New Enterprise Associates
Lightbank
XTX Ventures
Litquidity Ventures
Sequel
Gokul Rajaram
Software Engineering
About the role
TL;DR
Build and improve internal platform capabilities for engineering teams.
- •We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help build the internal platform capabilities that allow our engineering teams to move quickly without compromising security, reliability, or operational control.
- •Key Responsibilities Build and improve the internal platform capabilities used by both engineering teams and customers across ACRA.
- •Design and implement tooling, automation, workflows, and integrations that improve developer velocity and operational consistency.
- •Work closely with backend engineers to make services easier to build, test, deploy, observe, secure, and operate.
- •Build platform primitives for application lifecycle management, environment provisioning, deployment automation, configuration, secrets, observability, and controlled execution.
- •Build and improve golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service workflows for engineering teams.
- •Requirements Experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, backend engineering, SRE, or developer tooling.
- •Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and modern deployment workflows.
- •Comfortable writing production-quality automation or tooling in at least one language such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript.
- •Familiarity with infrastructure as code and GitOps workflows, especially Terraform, Argo CD, Helm, Kustomize, or similar tools.
- •Good understanding of how applications are built, containerised, deployed, configured, monitored, and operated.
Required skills
KubernetesDockerCI/CDGoPythonTypeScriptJavaScriptTerraformHelmGitHub Actions
Nice-to-have skills
PrometheusGrafanaVault
Benefits & perks
Equity, Hybrid work setup, Employer pension contributions
Tech stack
KubernetesDockerTerraformGitHub ActionsHelmCI/CDGoPythonTypeScriptJavaScript