Platform Engineer – Infrastructure & Cloud Systems

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About The Position

Viridien is seeking a Platform Engineer – Infrastructure & Cloud Systems to design, build, and improve infrastructure and platform systems that support software deployment and execution across large-scale, distributed environments. You will work across multiple layers of the stack, including infrastructure platforms, container orchestration, authentication systems, and observability tooling. This role focuses on building scalable, reliable systems and ensuring strong integration between infrastructure and higher-level platforms. You will join a team focused on infrastructure and platform engineering, supporting distributed systems and large-scale compute environments. The team works across cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and system-level tooling to enable reliable, high-performance software deployment and operations.

Requirements

Experience in software, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
Proven experience building and maintaining infrastructure platforms or distributed systems.
Experience with cloud infrastructure platforms such as OpenStack or similar.
Strong understanding of system deployment, scaling, and operations across infrastructure layers.
Ability to design scalable, maintainable, and high-performance systems.
Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Experience operating or deploying OpenStack environments.
Experience managing Kubernetes-based platforms.

Nice To Haves

Experience with containerised systems and orchestration tools.
Experience with authentication and access control systems such as OIDC.
Experience with observability tools such as Prometheus, ELK, Grafana, or Thanos.
Experience applying networking concepts, including software-defined networking.
Experience working with compute, storage, or hardware-level infrastructure.
Experience supporting high-performance or data-intensive workloads.
Experience with infrastructure automation and tooling.
Experience providing technical leadership or mentorship.

Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Design, build, and maintain infrastructure and platform systems across compute, networking, and orchestration layers.
Work with and improve OpenStack-based infrastructure environments.
Manage and enhance Kubernetes platforms in relation to underlying infrastructure.
Security & Access Contribute to authentication, authorisation, and service identity systems.
Support secure access patterns including OIDC and access control mechanisms.
Observability & Reliability Implement and maintain observability, monitoring, and logging solutions.
Improve system reliability, performance, and scalability across platform layers.
Architecture & Performance Analyse system performance and optimise infrastructure and platform interactions.
Participate in architecture and design discussions across infrastructure domains.

Benefits

Competitive salary commensurate with experience
Highly attractive bonus scheme
Initial 22 days annual leave with future increases, complemented by a flexible buying and selling holiday program
Company pension with generous employer contribution
Wellbeing Unmind app – puts you in control of your mental health
A flexible benefits platform with numerous discount schemes - gym membership, restaurants, cinema tickets, and much more!
Regular social club events, spontaneous reward events throughout the year
Cycle purchase scheme
Flexible Private Medical & Dental care programmes
Sponsorship of visas/comprehensive relocation packages
Bank Holiday Swap - our holiday swap program allows you to change it for another day of your choice!
Relaxed dress code policy
Learning and Development At Viridien, we foster a culture of continuous learning and provide tailored training programs through our Learning Hub, designed to enhance technical, commercial, and personal growth.
We Care About The Environment We encourage and actively support a strong sense of community, through volunteering and various company initiatives, as well as a strong company commitment to protecting our environment through sustainable solutions, energy saving and waste reduction enterprises.