Platform Engineer

Valarian Technologies is a dual-use technology company focused on creating tools for global security challenges. They are seeking a Platform Engineer to build internal platform capabilities that enhance engineering efficiency while ensuring security and reliability.

Responsibilities:

• Build and improve the internal platform capabilities used by both engineering teams and customers across ACRA
• Design and implement tooling, automation, workflows, and integrations that improve developer velocity and operational consistency
• Work closely with backend engineers to make services easier to build, test, deploy, observe, secure, and operate
• Build platform primitives for application lifecycle management, environment provisioning, deployment automation, configuration, secrets, observability, and controlled execution
• Build and improve golden paths, reusable templates, and self-service workflows for engineering teams
• Work with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps, GitHub Actions, Helm, Kustomize, container registries, secrets management, and CNCF tooling
• Write code and automation in languages such as Go, Python, TypeScript, or JavaScript
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, release workflows, deployment safety, rollback strategies, and environment management
• Integrate platform tools into coherent workflows rather than disconnected infrastructure pieces
• Evaluate, introduce, and operationalise CNCF tools where they improve the platform
• Build systems that work across GCP, on-premise, bare-metal, sovereign cloud, air-gapped, and customer-managed environments
• Contribute to observability, alerting, logging, tracing, dashboards, and production debugging workflows
• Define platform standards, golden paths, reusable templates, and operational patterns
• Work with infrastructure engineers on the boundaries between platform tooling and core infrastructure
• Take ownership of defined projects and grow into broader technical responsibility over time