Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CreateFuture is an AI-native consulting partner where people do work that matters and are supported to do it well. The Senior Cloud Platform Engineer will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and evolution of Kubernetes-based infrastructure on AWS, driving improvements in delivery pipelines and managing containerized workloads.
Responsibilities
- Own the operational health and evolution of containerised workloads running on EKS, including Helm chart management and Kustomize-based environment configuration
- Drive GitOps practices using Flux, maintaining, improving, and troubleshooting the reconciliation pipeline across environments
- Manage and optimise core managed services: EKS, MSK, and RDS, including scaling, patching, cost governance, and incident response
- Maintain and extend infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency, modularity, and alignment with AWS best practices
- Support and improve GitHub Actions CI/CD workflows, including build, test, and deployment pipelines for containerised applications
- Collaborate with development teams to support the hosting, debugging, and performance of Java/Kotlin and Python-based services
- Identify and address platform-level technical debt, contributing to a roadmap of incremental improvements
- Support on call for the EKS platform
Skills
- Kubernetes at production scale, EKS preferred, with strong understanding of networking, RBAC, resource management, and cluster operations
- GitOps tooling, Flux (essential), with solid working knowledge of Helm and Kustomize
- AWS managed services, hands-on experience with EKS, MSK, and RDS in production environments
- Terraform, authoring and maintaining modular infrastructure-as-code across multiple environments
- GitHub Actions, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for containerised workloads
- Application-layer awareness, ability to support and troubleshoot Java/Kotlin and/or Python services running in containers
- Strong operational mindset, comfortable with on-call responsibilities, incident management, and root cause analysis
Benefits
- 35 days leave (including bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- Enhanced parental and adoption leave.
- Financial coaching + 5% pension match.
- 40 hours of paid learning and development.
- Flexible working, including hybrid and remote options.
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