Platform Engineer

We’re looking for an experienced and engaged Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to help us shape, build and improve our unified platforms and their integrated capabilities to enable Springer Nature’s product teams to focus on delivering value About the role  As a Platform Engineer within SN Technology Engineering, you will play a key role in shaping, building, and improving Springer Nature’s unified platforms and the integrated capabilities that empower product teams across the organisation. Our platforms serve hundreds of developers globally and support 100s of millions of euros in revenue. Your work will directly contribute to providing a reliable, secure, standardised foundation that accelerates product delivery.  Together with the team, you will share the responsibility of developing and improving our platforms along with maintenance tasks, documentation, running updates and keeping our systems secure. While you help to push the Platform-First-Strategy, you prioritise Platform as a Service (PaaS), drive adoption of best-in-class developer tools, and continuously improve the platform’s usability, performance, and security. As a department, we focus and engage on providing a unified and standardised platform by using modern and open standards. Our approach is encompassed by defined core capabilities, such as observability, continuous integration, security and storage. We therefore closely collaborate in our department so that the core capabilities are not only tightly integrated but also provide a unified experience for/to the product teams in Springer Nature.  About the  t eam     Engineering Enablement consists of around 60 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. As part of the Engineering department at Springer Nature Technology, we provide platform engineering   expertise   to support core   capabilities   and use cases across run time to databases   to   observability, ci/cd, and SRE.      You will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities,   backgrounds   and experience levels. We are a very distributed department, sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, and Lisbon.   Our Technology   We have built platforms serving hundreds of developers around the world at scale. We are making more and more use of Kubernetes as a backend container platform and integrating this into our platform offering. We are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to build a new PaaS that will co-exist with the current Cloud Foundry Platform, as well as managing an internal database platform that runs over 1,200 database servers. Out tech stack focuses on:  Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE    Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry    Concourse, GitHub Actions    Terraform, Ansible   Postgres, Mongo, MySQL    GCP, AWS Role Responsibilities :   Meet your delivery and participation responsibilities as a…