Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer

at Collibra
📍 London, United Kingdom
GBP 90,000-130,000 per year
SENIOR
✅ Remote

SCRAPED

Used Tools & Technologies

Not specified

Required Skills & Competences ?

Security @ 3 Kafka @ 4 Kubernetes @ 4 Terraform @ 4 GCP @ 4 Distributed Systems @ 4 AWS @ 4 Azure @ 4 Communication @ 4 Networking @ 4 Reporting @ 4

Details

Join Collibra's Platform Infrastructure team and help build the cloud foundation for all Collibra products. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Platform Infrastructure, your contribution is critical as we evolve our multi-cloud environment, including Kubernetes, Istio, WAFs, and Golang automation to drive product innovation and reliability. We foster a remote-first, geographically diverse culture of shared learning and continuous improvement, offering a supportive environment to grow your skills and make a tangible impact.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the technical design and architecture of platform services, focusing on networking, service mesh (Istio), and service-to-service communication.
  • Design, develop, and manage Kubernetes Operators in Golang, custom tooling, and Istio service mesh to automate and enhance platform capabilities.
  • Partner with product teams to co-design infrastructure solutions that improve velocity and reliability while efficiently serving developers.
  • Engineer the platform's observability stack (metrics, logs, traces), define SLOs, and implement DevSecOps best practices, including WAF configuration and management.
  • Mentor other engineers, champion technical excellence, and drive cloud cost optimization through automation.

Requirements

  • Production experience managing infrastructure on a major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
  • Hands-on experience operating Kubernetes and service mesh technologies (preferably Istio).
  • Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts (VPCs, routing, load balancing, WAFs, network policies).
  • Proven experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and operational tooling in Golang.
  • Experience supporting stateful applications like GraphDB and/or Kafka.
  • Familiarity with cloud security principles (IAM, security groups).
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent working experience.

Attributes

  • Critical thinker skilled in analyzing complex distributed systems with intricate network flows.
  • Proactive learner curious about evolving cloud, container orchestration, and service mesh technologies.
  • Open-minded, emotionally intelligent, approaching problems with positive intent.
  • Clear communicator of technical concepts to diverse audiences with focus on simplification and automation.
  • Able to work independently with high care.

Measures of Success

  • Within first month: Integrate with team, understand architecture, make first platform contribution.
  • Within third month: Actively ship platform tooling delivering measurable value.
  • Within sixth month: Become a go-to expert and steward for a key platform component, e.g., service mesh, guiding design and implementation.

Benefits

Collibra offers a flexible benefits program supporting diverse needs and life goals, including competitive compensation, health coverage, and time off. The company fosters inclusion, diversity, equity, and is an equal opportunity employer committed to a workplace that celebrates everyone.