Platform Engineer
Springer Nature
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
- 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
Reference: WJ-747_30919119