Platform Engineer (remote work)

TuxCare provides security solutions for Linux and open-source software used by enterprise organisations. The company specializes in automating vulnerability patching, reducing downtime, maintaining security and compliance, and supporting critical systems throughout their lifecycle. The Platform Engineering team belongs to the Endless Lifecycle Support (ELS) department, which helps organizations securely use end-of-life Linux distributions, programming language runtimes, and frameworks.

• Senior-level infrastructure/SRE experience with ownership of production services.
• Linux systems administration on bare metal and virtual machines.
• Production experience with Kubernetes, including running workloads and clusters, upgrades, and GitOps delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code knowledge, including Ansible, Terraform, or Terragrunt.
• Production experience with GitLab CI and CI runners.
• Experience with Prometheus/VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, and PromQL.
• Technical writing skills for engineering audiences.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Advanced use of AI engineering assistants such as Claude and Codex.
• Advanced written and spoken English.

Nice to have:

• Design experience with SLO and burn-rate alerting.
• Knowledge of MicroVM isolation technologies like Kata Containers, Firecracker, and gVisor.
• Public cloud experience, including cost optimization.
• Experience managing self-hosted monitoring systems under load.
• Programming skills in Python or Go for tooling.
• GitLab administration experience.

• Own the CI/CD and QA platforms end to end, including hardware, infrastructure, CI runners, build and test environments, and developer experience.
• Be accountable for the platforms' reliability, quality, scalability, and cost.
• Analyze CI fleet and related services usage data to inform capacity, sizing, and performance decisions.
• Improve and automate the tools used for building, testing, and shipping software, reducing manual work such as flaky tests.
• Contribute to platform architecture in collaboration with engineering teams.
• Maintain service health using monitoring and runbooks; write alerts for the company observability tenant.
• Deploy new services following best practices.
• Support developer requests and automate recurring tasks into self-service.
• Manage incidents end-to-end, including diagnosis, mitigation, and post-mortems.
• Deliver infrastructure as code through merge-request reviews.
• Write technical documentation for engineers across teams.
• Work with AI agents by delegating tasks and reviewing their output.