Freelance Platform Engineer - Long Term - Hybrid

Freelance Platform Engineer - Large Transformation Project - Long Term

We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to build, operate, and continuously improve our core platform infrastructure. The role has a strong focus on observability, monitoring, and incident response, ensuring platform reliability and performance at scale. You will work closely with DevOps, SRE, and development teams to provide a stable, automated, and well-observed Kubernetes-based platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain Kubernetes-based platforms supporting multiple applications and services.
• Manage and optimise Linux-based infrastructure in cloud and / or on-prem environments.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Ansible, or similar.
• Ensure platform scalability, availability, and performance.
• Design and operate observability solutions covering metrics, logs, and traces.
• Implement and maintain monitoring and alerting systems (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / Elastic, OpenTelemetry).
• Lead or support incident response, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
• Implement reliability improvements based on incident learnings.
• Develop automation and tooling to reduce manual operational work.
• Apply engineering best practices to platform development and operations.
• Contribute code in Python, Go, Bash, or similar languages.

Additional Details :

If you are interested or know anyone who could be a good fit please send your CV to matthew@Kodastaff.com