# Senior Platform Engineer > Ocean Infinity · London, United Kingdom (Hybrid) · — · Posted 2026-09-15 **Salary:** GBP 100,000–100,000 **Workplace:** hybrid ## Description At **Ocean Infinity**, we're on a bold mission to subsea data using innovative technology. Using cutting-edge robotics, autonomous technology and world-class software, we're transforming how complex operations are carried out at sea. Our uncrewed systems are making ocean exploration and operations **safer, smarter and more sustainable**, helping unlock the vast potential of our oceans while reducing environmental impact. 🌍 This isn't a vision for the future. **It's happening right now.** As we continue to push the boundaries of innovation and redefine what's possible in the maritime industry, we're looking for exceptional talent to join our fast-growing team. Ocean Infinity is looking for a **Senior Platform Engineer** to help build, operate & evolve the systems, tooling & infrastructure that support our software delivery & platform operations. In this role you'll be taking ownership of key platform components & contribute to the foundations that enable engineering teams to build, deploy & operate services reliably at scale. You'll work on improving internal tooling, strengthening observability and operational practices & ensuring teams have the self-service capabilities required to confidently manage their services. You'll report to the **Core Engineering Lead** & collaborate closely with the teams across the organization providing hands-on technical support, architectural input & practical solutions that strengthen the company's core engineering platform. ## Requirements **What you will do! 🚀** - Design and evolve core platform systems, Contribute to architecture & implementation strategy of cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD & internal tooling foundations that support the operations across the organization - Drive High-impact Platform Improvements, Own & deliver enhancements across infrastructure, deployments & automation to improve reliability, scalability & performance - Build for resilience and efficiency, Develop platform capabilities that are secure, fault-tolerant & easy for product teams to adopt - Enhance developer productivity Create internal tools, services & workflows that aim to reduce friction & help engineers build, test and deploy faster & smoother - Strengthen observability and operations, Improve monitoring, logging & alerting to ensure visibility across environments and support fast, effective incident response - Solve complex technical challenges, Investigate & resolve issues across distributed systems, cloud services, networking & Kubernetes - & translate findings into measurable improvements - Collaborate across teams, Work closely with engineering and product teams to support new features, troubleshoot integration issues & ensure services run reliably on the platform - Evaluate and introduce new technologies, Stay current with cloud-native & DevOps ecosystems – bringing in tools & approaches that aim to improve delivery speed, reliability and developer experience - Promote platform standards and best practices, Help establish and reinforce patterns that lead to secure, scalable and well-operated services **What we look for!🔍** - You have a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent hands-on experience - You bring in 5+ years of experience working in Platform Engineering, SRE, DevOps or infrastructure-focused software development - You have a strong experience with Cloud environments (Azure preferred) and understand the fundamentals of cloud networking, identity, compute & storage - You have deep, hands-on experience operating Kubernetes in production – including deployments, troubleshooting, networking & day-to-day operations - You are comfortable running & operating containerized services at scale - You work confidently with infrastructure-as-code to automate deployments environments and operational workflows - You have experience owning, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, internal tooling or automation that supports development operations - You’re comfortable troubleshooting issues across distributed systems, networking, containers and cloud services - You have a strong understanding of monitoring, logging, tracing and alerting and appreciate the value that a strong observability setup brings to an organization **Nice to have! ✨** - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform as familiarity with modern Kubernetes configuration approaches – operators, GitOps controllers, or similar - Strong understanding of Kubernetes internals, cluster lifecycle & multi-cluster patterns - Experience operating & supporting platforms across Azure and on-prem environments, including practical experience with Windows Servers & Linux systems - Solid understanding of distributed system concepts, including service networking, messaging patterns & event-driven designs - Good grasp of software architecture fundamentals such as CQRS, domain-driven principles & how backend services interact with modern cloud-native environments - Understanding of structured observability concepts – metrics, traces, logs – even if not specialized in any single stack ## Benefits \*Salary: £100,000 Per Annum\* ## Apply [Apply at Ocean Infinity](https://apply.workable.com/ocean-infinity/j/E3B2C0177C/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)