Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AlphaSense is an AI-driven market intelligence company that helps sophisticated organizations make informed decisions using trusted public and private content. The Staff Platform Engineer will own and evolve the company’s cloud and Kubernetes platform, shape its architectural roadmap, and improve infrastructure security, reliability, cost efficiency, and performance while enabling self-service and AI-powered operational workflows.
Responsibilities
- Own, operate and evolve our Cloud and Kubernetes based Platform
- Continuously improve the security, reliability, cost efficiency and performance of our infrastructure
- Champion standards and drive initiatives to promote uniformisation and eliminate duplication
- Collaborate with Product teams to enable and empower them to build and own their services
- Work closely with other Platform teams (e.g. SRE, DevEx) to create a coherent and quality Platform
- Enable truly self-service and agentic workflow patterns that support a Build it - Own it model
- Build tooling and AI powered integrations that reduce the cognitive load of dealing with complex infrastructure operations and systems
- Provide support for the systems we build to a globally distributed Engineering organisation
- Execute, automate and support operational tasks on complex and mission critical systems
- Architect, design and implement simple and maintainable solutions
Skills
- Extremely experienced in Kubernetes and its various components, containerisation and AWS cloud
- Proven track record of running Kubernetes and Cloud based production SaaS systems at scale
- Deep understanding of networking and Production level usage of service meshes and gateways
- Strong operational and troubleshooting skill with Kubernetes, Databases, Messaging Systems and Storage layers
- Proficiency in Python and Golang, preferably demonstrated through building infrastructure tooling, Kubernetes operators or control plane components
- Evangelist of highly performant CI/CD practices that are supportive of agentic workflows
- Ability and desire to design, lead, influence and deliver on ambitious technical roadmaps
- Management of large fleets of Kubernetes clusters with lifecycle management tools (e.g. CAPI, Rancher)
- Production usage of Hashicorp vault or similar secret management systems
- GCP and Azure knowledge
Benefits
- You may also be offered equity
- A generous benefits program
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