Senior Software Engineer - Platform Operations

PhysicsX

London, United Kingdom
On-site
Grafana ecosystem expertise
Kubernetes operational familiarity
Cloud cost attribution and reporting
The Platform Operations team is responsible for the operational health, cost efficiency, and developer experience of the platform, covering monitoring, alerting, developer portal, CI/CD tooling, and cloud cost management

Job Summary

  • The Platform Operations team is responsible for the operational health, cost efficiency, and developer experience of the platform, covering monitoring, alerting, developer portal, CI/CD tooling, and cloud cost management.
  • Key responsibilities include owning the observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Mimir), leading Backstage adoption, driving FinOps practices, implementing IAM policies, and contributing to security practices.
  • PhysicsX offers equity options, a 10% employer pension contribution, free office lunches, flexible and hybrid working, enhanced parental leave, private healthcare, and personal development opportunities.

Matching Summary

The Platform Operations team is responsible for the operational health, cost efficiency, and developer experience of the platform, covering monitoring, alerting, developer portal, CI/CD tooling, and cloud cost management.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Grafana ecosystem expertise
  • Kubernetes operational familiarity
  • Cloud cost attribution and reporting
  • Python or Golang automation
  • DevOps and platform operations background
  • Multi cloud environments experience

Nice-to-have

  • Terraform or Crossplane experience
  • GitOps workflows
  • On premises or hybrid infrastructure
  • ML platform operational environments
  • Functional programming languages exposure

Key Requirements

  • Significant experience in platform operations, DevOps, or SRE role
  • Deep familiarity with Grafana, Loki, Mimir or Prometheus
  • Practical experience implementing cloud cost attribution
  • Solid operational familiarity with Kubernetes
  • Genuine experience with security tooling
  • Experience working across more than one cloud provider
  • Comfortable writing scripts and tooling in Python

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