Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join SilverRail, a global leader in reshaping rail travel, as a Senior Platform Engineer. You will be part of a team designing, building, and operating a cloud-native SaaS platform using industry-leading tools and practices. This role involves managing service reliability, developing automation systems, and designing cloud environments. You will contribute to all aspects of the evolving infrastructure and platform, working with cross-functional teams to optimize processes. SilverRail offers a competitive benefits package, flexible work arrangements, and extensive career development opportunities. This is a remote-first position with occasional travel for team meetings.

Requirements

• Hands on experience in operations engineer, DevOps, SRE, sysadmin role or academic knowledge
• 3-5 years of industry experience in an Infrastructure function, including exposure to Public Cloud services
• Knowledge of Linux based operating systems
• Experience in programming practices and Software Development Life Cycle models
• Experience in a common programming language or scripting language (python, ruby, bash, etc)
• Experience with Infrastructure as code concepts and languages, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM etc
• Knowledge of Git and Git based workflows such as GitOps
• Advocate of software best practices and Agile SDLC

Responsibilities

• Contribute to building and enhancing every aspect of SilverRail’s evolving infrastructure and platform as a service
• Support internal and external customers, and build on key cloud technologies
• Manage service reliability functions such as monitoring & alerting solutions, latency & load performance, uptime, and error budgets
• Develop, maintain, and utilise SilverRail’s deployment automation, configuration management, and orchestration systems
• Design, build, and manage SilverRail’s cloud environments and associated technologies
• Own the deployment process to ensure streamlined, zero-downtime, and orchestrated service delivery
• Work with cross functional teams to optimise processes, application development, and customer support
• On-call responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Container technologies and platforms such as Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE/Rancher/Openshift/Anthos) would be beneficial
• Software development experience is highly valued

Benefits

• Private healthcare insurance
• Rail discounts
• Flexible working
• A wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be
• A number of wellbeing seminars and membership to the #1 leading meditation app
• Educational workshops around women’s health, family planning and fertility as well as progressive leave policies & hormone testing
• Remote first working organisation