Senior Platform Engineer

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Deimos’ purpose is to guide companies on the journey of adopting the cloud for improved service to its customers. Ultimately, our services are aimed at trying to help you avoid costly mistakes in order to benefit from scalable, performant, and reliable systems that lie at the end of a cloud native transformation. Whether it be Developer and Security Operations, Cloud Native Transformation Strategy, or Software Engineering & Architecture, we have an intense focus on the engineering fundamentals. This allows for us to plan and build a solid foundation for your company, resulting in simplified workflows, stronger systems and true future-proofing.

JOB SUMMARY

What You Must HaveBachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering.4+ years of relevant work experience as a Developer building/running Java or C# applications.2+ years deploying, managing, and rightsizing Kubernetes clusters, resources, and underlying infrastructure.2+ years designing and operating public cloud environments.Experience using GitOps/CI-CD workflows for infrastructure as code and Helm workload deployments.A product mindset for internal tooling: ability to identify developer pain points and build platform solutions that address them at scale.Advantageous: experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and familiarity with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Kubernetes & Containerisation: Kubernetes, Istio, ArgoCD, Helm & CI/CD for containerised workloads.Monitoring and Logging: Prometheus, Loki, Grafana & ELK to monitor Kubernetes resources and Java workloads.Source Control & CI/CD: GitHub & GitHub Actions for version control and CI/CD.Operating Systems: Ansible and AWS tooling to manage Unix environments (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).Backend Development: Hands-on experience designing, developing, and deploying backend services in Java; scripting for ad-hoc problems.Cloud Infrastructure: AWS/Cloud services and best practices, including the AWS Well-Architected Framework.Infrastructure as Code: AWS CDK & Terraform to write and manage infrastructure.Architecture and Design Patterns: DDD, Event-Driven Architecture (EDA), and distributed computing architecture.Computer Networking: Core networking concepts including VPCs, Subnets, NAT Gateways, Internet Gateways, Peering, PrivateLink, Global Accelerators, and Load Balancing.Database Management: Relational databases (MySQL, SQLite, PostgreSQL), event pipelining using Apache Kafka.Internal Developer Platform: Build and maintain self-service tooling and golden paths that reduce cognitive load for product teams.

REQUIRED SKILLS

Cloud architectures and services, Data models and architectures, Java, Software architecture, Programming, .Net

REQUIRED EDUCATION

Bachelor's degree