Platform Engineer

A high-growth climate analytics company is looking for a Platform Engineer to help scale the infrastructure behind a global climate risk platform used by enterprise clients. This is an opportunity to work on large-scale geospatial datasets, high-performance compute workloads, and cloud-native infrastructure in a mission-driven environment.

You’ll collaborate closely with platform, data, and geospatial engineering teams to build reliable, scalable systems that power advanced climate modelling and analytics.

What You'll Be Doing

• Design and build scalable AWS cloud infrastructure
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows
• Optimise systems handling large geospatial datasets and compute workloads
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Improve platform security and reliability
• Partner with engineering teams to support delivery and scaling
• Drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives

Tech Environment

• AWS (EC2, ECS/EKS, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, VPC)
• Terraform / CloudFormation
• Kubernetes & Docker
• CI/CD (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins)
• Python / Bash scripting
• Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog)

Requirements

• 3+ years experience in Platform / DevOps / Cloud Engineering
• Strong hands-on AWS experience
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Containerisation (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes/ECS)
• CI/CD pipeline development experience
• Monitoring and observability tooling
• Strong scripting skills (Python, Bash, etc.)
• Experience working in agile engineering teams

Nice to Have

• GCP experience
• Geospatial or data platform experience
• Airflow / Prefect / data orchestration
• Large-scale data processing environments
• ML / AI infrastructure exposure
• Startup or scale-up experience
• Sustainability or climate tech interest