Platform Engineer

This is a hands-on engineering role with 7-10 years of experience expected. You will treat the platform as a product, owning its stability, performance, and running cost. Expect to spend your time automating away toil, shortening the path from commit to production, and making the platform both cheaper and more reliable quarter over quarter.

Your EDGE assignment/You will:

• Build and operate our internal developer platform as a product, with paved paths, golden templates, and self-service capabilities for product teams
• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure infrastructure using Terraform
• Own platform stability and availability against a 99.99% uptime target, including SLOs, error budgets, and capacity planning
• Design for resilience: high availability, multi-zone deployments, graceful degradation, backup and disaster recovery, and regular failure testing
• Drive cloud cost optimisation through rightsizing, autoscaling, reserved capacity, spot workloads, and removal of idle resources
• Build cost visibility and accountability, tagging and attributing spend so teams can see and manage the cost of what they run
• Run GitOps-based delivery on Kubernetes with FluxCD, keeping cluster state declarative, reviewable, and reproducible
• Build and evolve Azure DevOps pipelines for reliable, low-friction deployments, including one-click releases, safe rollbacks, and parameterised builds
• Package and standardise workloads with Docker and Kubernetes across environments
• Improve observability across the platform with metrics, logs, traces, and actionable alerting so teams can see, measure, and debug their own services
• Reduce operational noise: tune alerts, remove recurring failure modes, and run blameless post-incident reviews that lead to permanent fixes
• Embed non-functional requirements such as security, performance, scalability, and cost into platform design by default rather than as an afterthought
• Partner with product engineering teams to fold platform and operational concerns into design, build, and release
• Provide Level 2/3 support for platform components, finding root causes and shipping permanent fixes
• Continuously reduce manual work, cycle time, and operational overhead across the engineering organisation

Are you the one?

Experience

7-10 years of hands-on experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or a closely related discipline.

Must-have skills

• FluxCD, for GitOps-based continuous delivery on Kubernetes
• Terraform, for infrastructure as code at scale
• Azure cloud, including core services, networking, identity, and governance
• Azure DevOps, including pipelines, repos, and release automation
• Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, and troubleshooting production clusters
• Docker, including container build, image hygiene, and runtime fundamentals
• Running highly available production systems and holding availability targets such as 99.99%
• Cloud cost management and optimisation on Azure

Good-to-have skills

• Cloud security, including posture management, secrets handling, and policy enforcement
• GitOps practices and tooling beyond FluxCD
• ArgoCD
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) and modern observability pipelines
• PowerShell scripting and automation
• Site Reliability Engineering practices such as SLOs, error budgets, and chaos testing
• FinOps practices and cloud cost governance

Soft Skills

• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent collaboration and communication abilities
• A product mindset, treating internal engineers as your customers
• Sound judgement under pressure during incidents, with a calm and structured approach
• Comfortable working across multiple teams and managing competing priorities
• Proactive, with a bias towards continuous improvement

Axi's bag of delights

• Competitive and attractive compensation.
• Extensive learning opportunities, such as professional training and certifications and soft skills development.
• 18 annual leave days per year.
• 12 sick days leave per year.
• Public holidays as declared by local government.
• Maternity leave as per law.
• Health Insurance.

Axi's interview journey

• Talent Acquisition Interview (30 minutes)
• Technical Round with a member of the Platform Development team (60 minutes)
• Technical and Managerial Round with Ronald (60 minutes)
• Bar Raiser Round, optional, with Sharath (30 minutes)

Please note that our organization works with recruitment agencies on a pre-approved basis only. A recruitment agency that wishes to submit candidate profiles or resumes for consideration must obtain prior written consent from our talent acquisition team. We do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruitment agencies, and we will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes. Should we receive an unsolicited resume from a recruitment agency that does not have prior written consent, we will not be responsible for the payment of any fees related to the recruitment of the candidate represented in the unsolicited resume.

At Axi, we prioritize creating a workplace that upholds fairness and respect for all. We encourage every individual within our community to contribute towards a culture where everyone feels a sense of belonging and is treated with the dignity they deserve. We make all employment-related decisions, whether in hiring, compensation, training, performance reviews, or termination, based on merit and without bias, ensuring equal opportunities for everyone. We consciously work to identify and overcome any unconscious biases, with a commitment to fostering an inclusive environment where every employee and candidate feels genuinely welcomed and valued.