Senior Platform Engineer

Role overview

Senior Platform Engineer joining the engineering team to shape and optimize Partnerize’s deployment architecture. This is a hands-on role with autonomy across CI/CD pipelines, automated guardrails, and migration strategies, partnering closely with TechOps and other engineering teams.

Key missions / responsibilities

• Act as a key engineering stakeholder to shape, configure, and roll out a new Kubernetes platform.
• Drive phased application migrations by containerizing and migrating workloads to Kubernetes, starting with non-critical environments.
• Use and contribute to Ansible-based deployment automation to support feature releases, following TechOps peer-review processes.
• Standardize application-level configurations and manage migration/rollout strategies.
• Build and maintain robust deployment pipelines.
• Implement application observability.
• Create developer self-service documentation (e.g., runbooks, diagrams).
• Collaborate with engineering teams, including working effectively during incidents (“on fire”).

Requirements

• Methodical and security-conscious approach.
• Experience with GitOps tooling: ArgoCD or Flux.
• Ability to deliver iteratively in a real-world environment (not perfect greenfield), planning pragmatically around constraints.
• Observability experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Alertmanager (or equivalents).
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Strong scripting skills in Bash and Python.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; people-first, collaborative culture.
• Demonstrable Ansible experience (e.g., roles, inventories, vault, idempotency).
• Comfortable with Docker and Docker Compose in production.
• Familiarity with Helm chart authoring and management.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform (even in an on-prem context).
• Secrets management experience (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, Sealed Secrets, External Secrets Operator).
• Ability to autonomously drive outcomes and balance opinionated engineering with pragmatism.
• Strong documentation habits (runbooks, diagrams).
• Comfortable discussing technical trade-offs with software engineers, network engineers, and senior leadership.

Nice-to-haves / signals

• Experience balancing greenfield work with BAU responsibilities.
• Strong Kubernetes and Ansible experience, even if not every checklist item is met.