Senior Platform Engineer

About This Role

We’re seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Core Platform Service team at Just Eat Takeaway.com, thriving on building reliable, scalable, and automated infrastructure. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will play a key part in designing and implementing platform services that empower application teams to deploy, run, and secure workloads reliably at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production workloads on AWS, primarily using compute services like EKS, EC2, and Lambdas.
• Lead and operate EKS clusters across multiple environments, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability.
• Implement and maintain automation, monitoring, and alerting using tools such as Terraform, Grafana, Prometheus, and Datadog.
• Manage Linux-based infrastructure, including performance tuning, debugging, and kernel-level analysis.
• Roll out and standardize ArgoCD and Argo Workflows as part of our GitOps and automation strategy.
• Collaborate with development teams to design and operate microservices and event-driven architectures at scale.
• Troubleshoot incidents, drive root-cause analysis, and contribute to postmortems.
• Design, deploy, and manage HashiCorp Vault, implementing secret management, access policies, and integrations with workloads on EKS.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Solid understanding of Linux systems administration, networking (DNS, TLS/SSL, HTTP), and container fundamentals.
• Experience in designing multi-cluster EKS architectures or hybrid Kubernetes setups.
• Familiarity with RBAC design, OIDC authentication, and Vault secret injection into workloads.
• Experience designing distributed, event-driven systems and microservice architectures.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, monitoring, automation, release engineering, and incident response.
• Awareness of cloud security best practices and common threat mitigations.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Helm for infrastructure and application automation.
• Scripting or programming experience (Go preferred, Python or Bash also acceptable).

Key skills/competency

• Platform Engineering
• AWS (EKS, EC2, Lambdas)
• Kubernetes Operations
• Infrastructure Automation
• GitOps (ArgoCD, Argo Workflows)
• Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault)
• Linux Systems Administration
• Microservices Architecture
• SRE Practices
• Go/Python/Bash Scripting