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Our platforms serve hundreds of developers globally and support 100s of millions of euros in revenue. Your work will directly contribute to providing a reliable, secure, standardised foundation that accelerates product delivery.\nTogether with the team, you will share the responsibility of developing and improving our platforms along with maintenance tasks, documentation, running updates and keeping our systems secure. While you help to push the Platform-First-Strategy, you prioritise Platform as a Service (PaaS), drive adoption of best-in-class developer tools, and continuously improve the platform’s usability, performance, and security.\nAs a department, we focus and engage on providing a unified and standardised platform by using modern and open standards. Our approach is encompassed by defined core capabilities, such as observability, continuous integration, security and storage. We therefore closely collaborate in our department so that the core capabilities are not only tightly integrated but also provide a unified experience for/to the product teams in Springer Nature.\nAbout theteam\nEngineering Enablement consists of around 60 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. As part of the Engineering department at Springer Nature Technology, we provide platform engineeringexpertiseto support corecapabilitiesand use cases across run time to databasestoobservability, ci/cd, and SRE.\nYou will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities,backgroundsand experience levels. We are a very distributed department, sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, and Lisbon.\nOur Technology\nWe have built platforms serving hundreds of developers around the world at scale. We are making more and more use of Kubernetes as a backend container platform and integrating this into our platform offering. We are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to build a new PaaS that will co-exist with the current Cloud Foundry Platform, as well as managing an internal database platform that runs over 1,200 database servers.\nOut tech stack focuses on:\nKubernetes, Kubevela, GKE \nGrafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry \nConcourse, GitHub Actions \nTerraform, Ansible \nPostgres, Mongo, MySQL \nGCP, AWS\nRole Responsibilities:\nMeet your delivery and participation responsibilities as a contributortoan engineering team, working on theEngineering Platform.\n\nBuild,operateand maintain the core capabilities and components of the Engineering Platform\n\nTreat the Platform and its components as a product, with real customers instead of just infrastructure to manage.\n\nBuild and design automation,toolingand self-service mechanisms, so product teams can move faster.\n\nOwn andoperateplatform services end toend,this mayinclude:managing Kubernetes clusters, contributing toautomationand tooling, or building and operating CI/CD andObservabilitysystems.\n\nProvide technical support and consultancy to product teams, and playback what you learn from them into the product roadmap.\n\nExperience, Skills & Qualifications:\nEssential:\nYou have experienceoperating,automating,andmaintainingcloud infrastructure (in either AWS or GCP), includingcontributing to system architecture and design.\n\nWithexpertisein at least one of the following: (storage, routing, cloud networking, org policydefinitionand automation, IAM)\n\nYou have programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages.\n\nYou have experience with general automation patterns and version controlling\n\nYou have experience inmanagingKubernetes deployments, as well aswriting Kubernetes operators or controllers.\n\nYou have taken part in projects from design to production.\n\nYou'veworked in multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering shared outcomes within the software delivery lifecycle.\n\nDesirable:\nYou have written andmaintainedcode that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons,etc.\n\nYou have written applications using Go and have a thorough understanding of its language features and idiomatic practices.\n\nYou candemonstrateyour experience with some of the core technologies in use (Kubernetes,Kubevela, GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, Mongo)\n\nYou have experience in building APIs, exposing components in a programmable way, to be consumed by humans and machines.\n\nWhat you will be doing\n3 months\nYou'llwork in collaboration with your team to gain a working contextofour environment, get to know your colleagues and customers, and fill gaps in your skills and knowledge.\nYou will:\nTake an active role in your team.\n\nUnderstand the business value we deliver\n\nDevelop an understanding of our customers and their needs.\n\nDevelop understanding of our Engineering Platform and key strategies.\n\nLearn about the software development lifecycle in Springer Nature.\n\nGain knowledge of the key technologies and tools in use by your team (e.g., Cloud Foundry, GKE, EKS,etc)\n\nParticipate in team ceremonies and day-to-day work.\n\nCreate a development plan with your line manager to expand your skills and knowledge.\n\n3-6 months\nYou'llbeleveragingyour understanding of our context to contribute to the department's priorities, while continuing to build relationships and skills.\nYou will:\nContribute to platform improvements.\n\nUse the right technology solutions to solve the problem at hand.\n\nHave a good understanding of the context the team is working within.\n\nBe able to properly understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and product owners.\n\nBecome familiar with the security, compliance, and accessibility risks that affect our products, and understand how to mitigate them.\n\nManage container-based runtime platforms confidently.\n\nParticipate in architectural discussions.\n\nUnderstand the goals of the company and how the department helps to deliver them.\n\nContinue deepening your skills and knowledge.\n\n6-12 months\nYou'llberecognisedas a key contributor to your team, driving the platform forward. 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