Skyral Group - Senior Platform Engineer

• Strong systems and infrastructure mindset • Comfortable working across modern and legacy environments • Calm under pressure during outages or failures • Pragmatic and delivery-focused, with a bias toward keeping systems running. • Strong collaborator across engineering disciplines • Adopts an SRE mindset, focusing on reliability, observability, and continuous improvement of running systems. • Key Technical Proficiencies: • Expert working knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, Ansible and Docker. • Understanding of Distributed Systems in production. • Experience working within constrained or regulated environments (e.g. D2S, OpenShift, MODCloud) and adapting to their tooling and limitations. • Experience building and operating CI/CD pipelines with automated deployment workflows. • Familiarity with GitOps approaches and tools such as ArgoCD. • Strong understanding of Network fundamentals, Zero Trust solutions, service to service communications and distributed system connectivity. • Ability to diagnose issues across infrastructure, networking, and application layers. • Experience supporting or integrating legacy and non-cloud-native systems alongside modern infrastructure. • Experience in developing with Go or Python as well as shell scripting. • Experience applying Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices such as monitoring, alerting, incident response, and service reliability improvement. • What We Can Offer You: • 🌴Unlimited Paid Holiday - we value and support the need to maintain a strong work-life balance. • 🏡 Hybrid Working - we understand that a one-size-fits all approach doesn’t suit everyone. • ⏰ Flexible Working Hours - We’re not bound by the 9-to-5 model. Collaborate with your manager on determining a work schedule that suits you. • 🍼 Enhanced Parental Leave - we’re proud to offer 26 weeks maternity leave and 4 weeks paternity leave at full pay. • 🏥 Private Medical & Dental Insurance - offered through Bupa. • 💲Honest about Compensation - We maintain a well defined salary range which a member of the Talent Team will discuss with you during the first call. • ☕ Healthy Snacks & Drinks Provided - If you decide to come into the office, we have a range of snacks and drinks for you to enjoy. • At Skyral, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. We also ensure that individuals with disabilities have access to reasonable adjustments. If you require such accommodations during the job application process we ask that you inform a member of our Talent Team. • We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.