Platform Engineer

Overview

As a Platform Engineer at Springer Nature Technology Engineering, you shape and evolve unified platforms that empower product teams globally. You’ll help maintain a reliable, secure, and standardized foundation that accelerates delivery, while pushing a Platform-First approach and improving developer tooling. The role combines platform ownership with collaboration across a distributed team to drive usability, performance, and security. You will work on Kubernetes-based PaaS initiatives and integrate core capabilities like observability, CI/CD, and security. This is a hands-on role with meaningful impact on product delivery and developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and maintain core capabilities and components of the Engineering Platform
• Treat the Platform as a product with real customers
• Design automation, tooling and self-service mechanisms to speed up product teams
• Own and operate platform services end-to-end (Kubernetes, automation, CI/CD, Observability)
• Provide technical support to product teams and feed learnings into the roadmap

Key requirements

• Experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (AWS or GCP) and contributing to system architecture
• Expertise in storage, networking, IAM or related areas
• Programming experience in Go, Python, JVM languages or similar
• Experience with automation and version control
• Experience managing Kubernetes deployments and writing operators/controllers
• Experience delivering projects from design to production
• Experience in cross-functional teams delivering shared outcomes in the software delivery lifecycle

• Collaborative, cross-functional teamwork
• Customer-focused consultancy to product teams
• Ability to discuss business requirements with stakeholders
• Kubernetes deployments and operators
• Kubevela, GKE, EKS
• Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry

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