Staff Cloud Platform Engineer

Amperon

. Own major parts of the Azure and Kubernetes platform running Amperon's product, data pipelines and AI agents .

Posted 10/30/2026full-timeRemote • United Kingdom, United StatesLeadWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive experience in managing Azure and Kubernetes platforms, with a strong focus on infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and GitOps methodologies. Proven ability to lead multi-month programs, ensuring robust observability and security practices while mentoring engineering teams.

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Azure Cloud ManagementKubernetes Production ExperienceTerraform Infrastructure-As-CodeObservability PracticesDatabase Operations

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Hard Skills

KubernetesTerraformPythonShell ScriptingMySQLClickHouseOpenTelemetryPrometheusGrafanaArgoCD

Soft Skills

Clear Written CommunicationMentoring

Tools & Technologies

AKSCiliumHelmGitHub ActionsAtlantis

Industry Keywords

Infrastructure EngineeringSite Reliability EngineeringCloud Cost ManagementSecurity PracticesIncident Response

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaKubernetesMySQLPrometheusPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own major parts of the Azure and Kubernetes platform running Amperon's product, data pipelines and AI agents
Set technical direction for platform areas and lead multi-month programs from design through cutover
Run and evolve AKS clusters for production, workflow and AI/agent workloads using Karpenter, Cilium network policy, workload identity, External Secrets, Helm and ArgoCD
Drive Terraform infrastructure-as-code through Atlantis, including provider upgrades, drift reconciliation, module design, guardrails, GitHub Actions runners and build pipelines
Operate MySQL Flexible Server and self-managed ClickHouse with replication, failover, backup and restore, capacity planning and safe upgrades
Design isolated, auditable environments for agentic workloads and MCP services, including egress controls, identity, observability and self-service deployment paths
Evolve observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana and Tempo, with alert rules managed as code
Identify and implement Azure cloud-cost savings
Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response and blameless postmortems, and support data engineering, data science and product teams
Write design documents, review code, mentor engineers and document systems

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in infrastructure, platform or site reliability engineering, including several years at a senior level owning production systems
Track record of leading multi-month infrastructure programs end to end: design doc, stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, cutover and cleanup
Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience in production, ideally on a managed offering such as AKS, EKS or GKE, including networking and network policy
Strong Terraform skills on a large codebase, with GitOps-style workflows such as Atlantis or ArgoCD
Production experience with at least one major cloud; Azure strongly preferred, with deep AWS or GCP experience also acceptable alongside willingness to learn Azure
Experience operating relational or analytical databases in production, including replication, upgrades and recovery
Security-focused practices including least privilege, identity-based access, secrets management and network isolation
Solid observability practice covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting and SLO thinking
Comfortable writing Python and shell for automation and tooling
Clear written communication across design docs, PRs and asynchronous threads
Candidates must be based in UK, EU or US time zones and provide at least 3 hours of daily overlap with US Central Time
Participation in an on-call rotation

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary plus stock option package, based on geographical location
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Annual company retreat
Flexible PTO policy
Flexible working
All-company event at least once a year