Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant components of the Azure and Kubernetes platform that supports Amperon's products, data pipelines, and AI agents.

• Establish the technical direction for platform domains and spearhead multi-month initiatives from design through deployment.

• Manage and enhance AKS clusters for production, workflows, and AI/agent tasks using Karpenter, Cilium network policy, workload identity, External Secrets, Helm, and ArgoCD.

• Propel Terraform infrastructure-as-code via Atlantis, which includes provider upgrades, drift reconciliation, module design, guardrails, GitHub Actions runners, and build pipelines.

• Operate MySQL Flexible Server and self-managed ClickHouse with replication, failover, backup and restore, capacity planning, and safe upgrades.

• Create isolated and auditable environments for agentic workloads and MCP services, encompassing egress controls, identity, observability, and self-service deployment paths.

• Advance observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, and Tempo, with alert rules managed as code.

• Identify and implement strategies for Azure cloud cost reduction.

• Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident responses, conduct blameless postmortems, and support data engineering, data science, and product teams.

• Author design documents, review code, mentor engineers, and document systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years in infrastructure, platform, or site reliability engineering, with several years at a senior level overseeing production systems.

• Proven experience in leading multi-month infrastructure initiatives from start to finish: design documentation, stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, deployment, and cleanup.

• Extensive hands-on Kubernetes experience in production settings, preferably with a managed service like AKS, EKS, or GKE, including networking and network policy.

• Strong Terraform expertise within a large codebase, utilizing GitOps-style workflows such as Atlantis or ArgoCD.

• Production experience with at least one major cloud provider; Azure is strongly preferred, though substantial AWS or GCP experience is acceptable if willing to learn Azure.

• Experience in managing relational or analytical databases in production, including replication, upgrades, and recovery processes.

• Security-oriented practices, emphasizing least privilege, identity-based access, secrets management, and network isolation.

• Comprehensive observability practices involving metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and SLO considerations.

• Proficient in writing Python and shell scripts for automation and tooling.

• Effective written communication skills across design documents, pull requests, and asynchronous discussions.

• Candidates must reside in UK, EU, or US time zones and be available for at least 3 hours of daily overlap with US Central Time.

• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with a stock option package, adjusted for geographical location.

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.

• Annual company retreat.

• Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy.

• Flexible working arrangements.

• All-company event at least once a year.