Platform Engineering Consultant
Collabora
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Design, deploy and maintain production infrastructure for client workloads
- Own the operational health of client platforms
- Favour open source tooling that is well-maintained and community-aligned
- Treat infrastructure configuration as software
- Translate client operational needs into technical solutions
- Balance technical excellence with real-world pressures
- Explain complex infrastructure decisions to product and engineering teams
- Take on more responsibility for shaping how Collabora delivers infrastructure consultancy
Requirements
- Solid Kubernetes experience. You are comfortable operating clusters in production, troubleshooting workload failures, managing networking and storage and navigating unfamiliar configurations independently. You do not need to have seen everything, but you should know how to find your way
- Broader infrastructure competence. Kubernetes is not the whole job. You are comfortable working across the platform stack: networking, storage, Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling
- Infrastructure as Code mindset. You treat infrastructure configuration as software: version controlled, peer reviewed and repeatable. You are uncomfortable with manual changes to production systems and you can articulate why. Experience with Ansible, Terraform or equivalent tooling is expected
- SRE or customer-facing support background. You are comfortable diagnosing and resolving issues reported by clients, often from vague descriptions and limited reproduction steps. You understand that good incident response is as much about communication as it is about technical skill
- Consultancy or client-facing technical background. You know how to balance technical excellence with business constraints, manage expectations across multiple projects and advocate for the right solution while respecting customer timelines
- Strong English communication skills, both spoken and written, for documentation, incident reports and client discussions
- Self-directed work style. You thrive in a remote, asynchronous environment and take ownership of your work without needing close supervision
- Helm familiarity is useful. We use it regularly on client engagements and you will pick it up quickly if you have not worked with it deeply yet
- Cloud provider experience: AWS, GCP or Azure experience informs good infrastructure decisions; understanding the primitives matters
- CI/CD pipeline experience: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or equivalent
- Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry or similar
- Security and compliance awareness: network policy, RBAC, pod security standards or supply chain security tooling
- Scripting and automation: Python, Bash or Go for operational tooling
- Rust: increasingly relevant for infrastructure utilities and systems-level tooling; not a primary requirement but a genuine advantage
- Open source contribution history. We know not every employer makes this easy. Active community participation at any level is valued and we will support you in building that profile as part of the role
Benefits
- Competitive salary based on experience and location
- Office setup budget
- Sabbatical/Retention of Services - after five years continuous service
- Co-working policy - support for working outside home
- Wellness assessments - biannual wellbeing assessments with a trained mental health specialist
- Conference attendance - we cover expenses and encourage speaking opportunities
- Open source time - contribute to projects you care about
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesAnsibleTerraformCI/CDPythonBashGoRustGitLab CIGitHub Actions
Soft Skills
communicationself-directed work styleclient-facing supportconsultancyproblem-solvingexpectation managementincident responsetechnical advocacydocumentationremote work