Platform Application Specialist

Platform Application Specialist focuses on build, support, test, or improve systems according to the role and technology stack.

What the role involves

• Build, support, test, or improve systems according to the role and technology stack.
• Work through technical issues carefully and keep delivery, documentation, or support activity organised.

Skills and requirements

• Degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Experience with system administration and troubleshooting (Linux, Bash, Containerization).
• Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Puppet).

Confirmed role details

• CI/CD pipelines, version control, artifact repositories, and developer platforms.
• Middleware: Critical applications like messaging queues, service discovery.
• Databases: A wide range of relational, NoSQL, and time-series database systems.
• Automation: Infrastructure automation, configuration management, and self-service enablement.

Candidate fit

• automation discipline, troubleshooting, documentation, and confidence with operational reliability

Additional role context

• Work with a diverse group of stakeholders, including developers, researchers, and infrastructure teams, to build, automate, and scale the solutions and services used across the fir.
• Observability: Monitoring, tracing, logging, and alerting infrastructure.
• Scheduling & Orchestration: HPC schedulers and container orchestration for compute-intensive workloads.