Platform Engineer, SDO

Overview

As a Platform Engineer at Wayve, you build, operate, and improve Azure-based cloud platforms to support development, testing, and production. You work with IaC, CI/CD, and container orchestration to enable scalable, secure software delivery. You’ll join a cross-functional team to optimize reliability, performance, and cost while advancing Wayve’s cloud-first platform strategy. This role offers hands-on growth in infrastructure automation and observability at a fast-paced AI robotics company.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve cloud infrastructure (primarily Azure) for development, testing, and production environments
• Contribute to Infrastructure-as-Code implementations (Terraform, Ansible) for repeatable provisioning
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems in cloud environments
• Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud systems for performance, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Assist in managing containerised workloads and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Implement and maintain observability tools (logging, metrics, alerting) for system health and rapid incident response
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure infrastructure meets application requirements and supports scalable delivery
• Improve security, access control, and compliance within cloud environments
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for infrastructure and deployment issues
• Continuously improve automation, reducing manual operations across infra and deployment workflows

Key requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in DevOps, cloud infrastructure, or related roles
• Hands-on experience with at least one cloud platform (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform, Ansible)
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and cloud-based deployment pipelines
• Basic understanding of networking, cloud architecture, and system reliability
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Troubleshooting and problem-solving
• Collaborative mindset and ability to work with cross-functional teams
• Proactive automation and continuous improvement attitude
• Terraform
• Ansible
• Azure, AWS, or GCP

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