Senior Platform Engineer

• The Production Engineering team owns the foundation of Skyral’s Core platform, providing services and infrastructure to deploy our platform in any environment: whether on the public cloud or a highly secure air-gapped network
• We provide a reliable base for other engineering teams to build customer solutions on top of
• Our team also owns the software delivery lifecycle at Skyral, reducing friction for other engineers by providing tooling, setting patterns and creating automations
• Owning complex platform initiatives end to end, from extending our Core platform to supporting customer solutions
• Setting company-wide technical direction, shaping our roadmap and building golden paths engineers enjoy following
• Mentoring engineers across the company, lifting the bar through review, pairing and sharing knowledge
• Improving our developer tooling and automation (reusable GitHub Actions, GitOps workflows, Terraform modules, Backstage and more) to make every engineer more productive
• Running and maintaining reusable components that package common open-source tools (e.g. Grafana, Istio, CloudNativePG) for teams to deploy in any environment
• Baking security into the platform through secure-by-default infrastructure, compliance audits and close work with our security engineer

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced parental leave: We’re proud to offer 26 weeks Maternity and 4 weeks Paternity leave at full pay
• Hybrid working: We understand that a one-size-fits all approach to work hours doesn’t suit everyone. Our hybrid working policy requires employees to spend a minimum of two days per week at our central London office. Outside this requirement, you’re empowered to work with your manager to determine a work schedule that suits your needs, whether in the office or through a hybrid model arrangement
• Unlimited paid holiday: We value and support the need to maintain a work-life balance, whether it’s taking time off during school holidays to be with your children, or simply having the flexibility to enjoy extended weekends without the stress of monitoring your remaining days off
• Dog friendly office
• Private medical & dental insurance
• Company pension
• Company swag

• A strong software engineering foundation, with significant experience building tooling and services in Go or Python
• Hands-on experience building scalable, reusable infrastructure on a major cloud platform (GCP or AWS). Experience deploying to on-prem environments is a bonus
• Proficiency with Kubernetes, from building and operating services to managing cloud-vendored clusters
• A production mindset, with experience improving reliability of production environments through observability, incident response and alerting
• Deep expertise in infrastructure and tooling practices, including Infrastructure as Code (ideally Terraform), CI/CD (we use GitHub Actions) and GitOps (for example, ArgoCD)
• Please feel empowered to apply for this position, even if you think you may only align with some of the qualities listed above. Your unique skills and perspectives could be just what we’re looking for