Company Overview

The organisation develops and supports technology-driven financial services that depend on scalable applications, secure integrations, and consistent software delivery. As engineering teams build and maintain more services, the underlying infrastructure must provide reliable deployment capabilities, standardised environments, clear operational visibility, and appropriate security controls.

A well-designed internal platform enables software engineers to concentrate on application development without repeatedly solving the same infrastructure, configuration, and deployment problems. It also helps improve consistency across services, simplify operational support, and establish shared standards for production readiness.

The organisation is seeking a Platform Engineer to help develop and maintain the infrastructure services, automation frameworks, and developer tooling that support its engineering teams. The successful candidate will contribute to a platform that makes common engineering tasks easier to perform while preserving reliability, security, and operational control.

Role Summary

The Platform Engineer will design, implement, and maintain shared infrastructure capabilities used by application development and operations teams. Responsibilities will include Kubernetes platform administration, deployment tooling, reusable infrastructure components, developer self-service workflows, environment management, and the integration of security and observability into standard engineering processes.

The position requires a balance of infrastructure expertise and an understanding of developer experience. Rather than treating the platform as a collection of servers and configuration files, the successful candidate will help create reusable services and workflows that make it easier for engineering teams to build, test, deploy, monitor, and operate applications.

The role will involve collaborating with DevOps engineers, SREs, software developers, and security teams to identify recurring technical challenges and turn them into standardised platform capabilities. These may include reusable deployment templates, automated environment provisioning, service configuration standards, infrastructure modules, and self-service tools for common operational tasks.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working with container platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, automation, and developer tooling, and can make technical decisions that support both immediate engineering needs and long-term platform maintainability.

Key Responsibilities

• Platform architecture and maintenance: Develop and maintain shared infrastructure services that support application deployment, service discovery, configuration management, monitoring, and production operations.

• Kubernetes operations: Configure, maintain, and improve Kubernetes clusters, workloads, namespaces, access policies, resource limits, networking, and deployment standards.

• Developer self-service: Build tools and workflows that allow developers to provision approved resources, create service environments, and perform routine deployment tasks with reduced manual assistance.

• Reusable infrastructure components: Develop and maintain standard infrastructure modules, service templates, configuration patterns, and deployment blueprints that can be reused across engineering projects.

• Internal developer tooling: Improve command-line tools, deployment interfaces, automation scripts, and engineering workflows that simplify common development and operational activities.

• Infrastructure as code: Apply version-controlled infrastructure management practices using tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, Helm, or comparable technologies.

• Application delivery integration: Work with CI/CD systems to establish consistent build, test, deployment, and release processes across supported applications and environments.

• Container management: Maintain container build standards, image management practices, deployment configurations, and resource policies for containerised services.

• Platform observability: Integrate logging, metrics, tracing, health checks, and alerting into platform services so that developers can understand service performance and operational behaviour.

• Security by design: Implement suitable access controls, secrets management, network policies, image scanning, and workload security standards in collaboration with security specialists.

• Platform reliability: Monitor platform health, investigate service disruptions, identify capacity constraints, and implement improvements that strengthen availability and resilience.

• Configuration standardisation: Reduce configuration drift by introducing consistent methods for managing application settings, environment-specific parameters, infrastructure policies, and deployment dependencies.

• Developer onboarding: Improve technical documentation, service templates, environment setup instructions, and onboarding workflows so new engineers can become productive more efficiently.

• Platform lifecycle management: Plan and execute platform upgrades, dependency updates, configuration changes, and infrastructure maintenance with appropriate testing and rollback procedures.

• Technical support: Help engineering teams resolve platform-related issues involving deployments, permissions, networking, service configuration, resource allocation, and infrastructure dependencies.

• Performance and cost management: Evaluate platform resource utilisation and recommend improvements to scheduling, scaling, resource allocation, and infrastructure efficiency.

• Engineering standards: Document recommended platform patterns, operational expectations, and reusable solutions to promote consistency across the engineering organisation.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

• Professional experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Kubernetes administration, or infrastructure automation.

• Practical experience operating Kubernetes or another container orchestration platform in development, testing, or production environments.

• Knowledge of Docker, container image creation, registries, deployment configurations, and container security fundamentals.

• Experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, or equivalent tools.

• Familiarity with Helm, Kustomize, or comparable methods for managing Kubernetes application configurations.

• Experience with cloud services from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or a comparable provider.

• Understanding of networking concepts, service discovery, DNS, ingress controllers, load balancing, TLS, and network access policies.

• Familiarity with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar automation systems.

• Ability to write automation scripts or tools using Python, Go, Bash, or another suitable programming language.

• Understanding of secrets management, identity and access management, least-privilege permissions, and secure configuration practices.

• Experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or equivalent tools.

• Familiarity with Git-based workflows, code reviews, version control, and collaborative software development practices.

• Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure and application deployment problems across multiple technical layers.

• Strong documentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain platform standards and technical decisions clearly.

• A developer-focused mindset, including the ability to identify repeated engineering friction and turn it into a reusable solution.

• Ability to prioritise tasks, manage competing technical requirements, and collaborate effectively with a distributed team.

Benefits

• Remote working arrangements within Estonia, subject to employment eligibility and organisational requirements.

• Opportunity to build shared infrastructure capabilities used by teams developing financial technology products.

• Practical experience with Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, infrastructure automation, and internal developer platforms.

• Opportunities to influence platform standards, developer productivity, and the quality of engineering workflows.

• Collaboration with software developers, DevOps engineers, reliability specialists, and cybersecurity professionals.

• Opportunities for technical growth in platform architecture, container orchestration, automation, and cloud infrastructure.

• A working environment that values reusable engineering solutions, documentation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

• Exposure to platform design challenges involving security, scalability, operational consistency, and developer experience.

Application Instructions

Candidates should submit an up-to-date CV through the relevant recruitment platform or official hiring channel associated with the vacancy. The application should describe relevant experience in Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code, developer tooling, and platform automation.

Applicants are encouraged to include examples of platform improvements they have delivered, such as simplifying deployment workflows, developing reusable infrastructure modules, introducing self-service capabilities, improving platform monitoring, or reducing repeated support requests. Relevant certifications, technical project summaries, and links to public code repositories may be included where available.

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