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.
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.
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
Own and operate platform services end to end , this may include: managing Kubernetes clusters, c ontribut ing to automation and tooling , or building and operating CI/CD and Observability systems .
Experience, Skills & Qualifications:
You have experience operating , automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (in either AWS or GCP) , including contributing to system architecture and design.
With expertise in at least one of the following: (storage, routing, cloud networking, org policy definition and automation, IAM)
You have programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages.
You have written and maintained code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc.
You can demonstrate your experience with some of the core technologies in use (Kubernetes, Kubevela , GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, Mongo)
You'll work in collaboration with your team to gain a working context of our environment, get to know your colleagues and customers, and fill gaps in your skills and knowledge.
Gain knowledge of the key technologies and tools in use by your team (e.g., Cloud Foundry, GKE, EKS, etc )
You'll be leveraging your understanding of our context to contribute to the department's priorities, while continuing to build relationships and skills.
Become familiar with the security, compliance, and accessibility risks that affect our products, and understand how to mitigate them.
You'll be recognised as a key contributor to your team, driving the platform forward. You will be working with your team and our customers to accelerate business delivery in a low-risk, scalable manner.
