Platforms Engineer

hatch I.T. is partnering with a Counter-UAS solution provider to find a Platforms Engineer. See details below:

About the Role:

The company is seeking a Platform Engineer with relevant experience to join the team. The position will report to the Director of Engineering (US).  This role will be a key position within the company's global Platform team. 

About the Company:

Work with cutting-edge technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. This company offers an opportunity to solve some of the world’s most challenging technical problems in Electronic Warfare, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, RF sensing, Sensor Fusion, and distributed systems. Working with high-profile customers across militaries, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure, law enforcement and many others, in over 100 countries around the world. Be part of a well-funded and agile organization, as a valued member of an autonomous, cross-functional team. They have a flat organizational structure, and the best candidates will be both creative lateral thinkers and doers. Their technical pursuits require us to take advantage of the absolute latest in technology and best practices to remain competitive.

• Build, evolve, and support DroneShield’s CI/CD systems and workflows.
• Define and manage infrastructure using Terraform (AWS, on-prem, and hybrid environments).
• Improve observability stack and telemetry coverage (metrics, logs, traces).
• Build tooling and automation that reduces cognitive overhead for internal engineering teams.
• Support rollout of security and compliance practices via automated guardrails.
• Contribute to self-service internal platform capabilities to improve team velocity.
• Track and improve DORA metrics: deployment frequency, lead time, MTTR, and change failure rate.
• Write automation and platform tooling in Go, Python, or TypeScript to support internal systems.
• Work closely with a larger Platforms team in Headquarters to support our DroneSentry C2 and ruggedised field hardware
• Support US based developers
• Expected to have high level Linux skills

• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (ideally GitLab, but flexible).
• Proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform (Enterprise and Open Source).
• Programming or scripting experience with languages such as Python and Go.
• Experience with Linux based environments
• Awareness of US Government security requirements and guidelines for hardware, OS, software and SDLC.
• Experience with Bash and one or more configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, Chef).
• Knowledge of deploying and managing modern observability stacks (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience with containerisation (Docker) and knowledge of orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Experience applying DevSecOps principles and security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure.
• Ability to build and manage cloud and hybrid infrastructure (AWS preferred; Azure also valued).
• Demonstrated ability to contribute to a strong developer experience, with a mindset focused on reliability, simplicity, and speed.
• Understanding of platform-as-product principles and commitment to improving internal tooling quality.