Platform Engineer (remote work)
Description
TuxCare provides security solutions for Linux and open-source software used by enterprise organisations. Our products help companies automate vulnerability patching, reduce downtime, maintain security and compliance, and support critical systems throughout their lifecycle.
Learn more about TuxCare:
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team within the Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) department.
ELS helps organisations continue using end-of-life Linux distributions, programming language runtimes, and frameworks securely, even after they stop receiving standard security updates.
Learn more about ELS:
Our Platform Engineering team is responsible for the department's CI/CD and QA platforms, managing everything from the underlying hardware and infrastructure to the tools and developer experience. The team takes full ownership of platform reliability, quality, scalability, and cost.
This is a hands-on, infrastructure-focused role that combines Platform Engineering, DevOps, and CI/CD, with opportunities to contribute to platform architecture and technical decisions.
You will be responsible for:
- Owning the CI/CD and QA platforms of the department end to end, from hardware and infrastructure through CI runners, build and test environments up to developer experience.
- Being accountable for the platforms' reliability, quality, scalability and cost.
- Analysing how the CI fleet and the services around it are actually used, and turning the findings into data-driven capacity, sizing and performance decisions.
- Improving and automating the tools teams use to build, test and ship, and removing recurring sources of manual work such as flaky tests.
- Contributing to the platform architecture together with engineering teams.
- Maintaining service health with monitoring and runbooks. Alerts are written into the existing company observability tenant.
- Deploying new services following best practices.
- Supporting developer requests and turning recurring ones into self-service.
- Managing incidents end-to-end: diagnosis, mitigation, post-mortems.
- Delivering infrastructure as code through merge-request reviews.
- Writing technical documentation for engineers across teams.
- Working with AI agents: delegating tasks and reviewing their output.
Requirements
Must have:
- Senior-level infrastructure / SRE experience with ownership of production services.
- Linux systems administration on bare metal and VMs.
- Kubernetes in production: running workloads and clusters, including upgrades and GitOps delivery.
- Infrastructure as code (Ansible, Terraform / Terragrunt).
- Production experience with GitLab CI and CI runners.
- Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics and Grafana, including PromQL.
- Technical writing for engineering audiences.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Advanced use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex.
- Advanced written and spoken English.
Nice to have:
- SLO and burn-rate alerting design.
- MicroVM isolation (Kata Containers, Firecracker, gVisor).
- Public Cloud experience, including cost optimisation.
- Self-hosted monitoring systems under load.
- Python or Go for tooling.
- GitLab administration.
Benefits
What's in it for you?
- Stay hands-on technically while working on complex, high-impact engineering projects.
- Work on challenging Linux, automation, and cybersecurity problems across mature and newer products.
- Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
- 24 paid vacation days, 10 national holidays, and unlimited sick leave.
- Private medical insurance compensation.
- Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
- Education budget.
- Opportunity to receive a reward for innovative ideas that the company can patent.
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Skills
As published by workable · 17 questions · 14 written answers
Basics
First name, Last name, Email, Address, Resume
Short answers (1)
- Where are you currently based? Please specify your country.
Pick from a list (2)
- How did you learn about this job?
- Our infrastructure is primarily based on bare-metal servers rather than cloud environments. Would you be comfortable working mainly with physical servers?
Written answers (14)
- Can we contact you via a messaging app? If yes, please specify the app and your contact details. optional
- Please specify your expected gross salary (monthly or annually) in USD or EUR.
- If you chose "Other", please, specify: optional
- Link to LinkedIn profile
- How many years of professional experience do you have in Infrastructure Engineering, SRE, or Platform Engineering?
- Please describe a production service or infrastructure platform you personally owned end-to-end.
- Do you have hands-on experience administering bare-metal Linux servers, either in your current role or in previous positions? If so, what were your main responsibilities?
- Please describe the types of Linux system administration and OS-level production troubleshooting tasks you typically handle? What kinds of issues have you investigated and resolved (e.g., performance, CPU/memory, networking, system services, etc.)?
- Please describe your hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production.
- What experience do you have with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Ansible and Terraform? Please provide an example of infrastructure you personally provisioned or automated using these tools.
- Please describe your production experience with GitLab CI/CD and GitLab runners.
- What experience do you have with Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and PromQL?
- Please describe your current AI-assisted engineering workflow. Which AI coding agents (e.g., Claude Code, Codex) do you use, how do you integrate them into your daily work, and how do you review and validate their output?
- What is your level of English proficiency?