Platform Engineer

Job Description

Portainer is looking for a hands-on DevOps & Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll design, build, automate, and maintain the internal platforms, infrastructure, tooling, and delivery pipelines that power our Engineering, Customer Success, Managed Services, and Product teams.

You'll work across Kubernetes, container platforms, CI/CD systems, infrastructure automation, cloud services, and observability tooling, helping us build a reliable, scalable, and automated platform foundation. If you have a strong automation mindset and a passion for modern platform engineering practices, we'd love to hear from you.

This role operates with core collaboration hours of 6:00 AM – 11:30 AM IST to provide overlap with global teams. Outside of core hours, work is flexible and outcome focused.

Reporting to the Platform Engineering and Support Team Leader, and working alongside Senior Platform Engineers, you'll take ownership of the systems and tooling that keep Portainer running at scale. Your day-to-day will span:

• Platform & Infrastructure: Build and improve internal platform services, automate provisioning and configuration, and support virtualization and infrastructure lifecycle management.
• Container Platforms: Deploy, manage, and troubleshoot Kubernetes environments; maintain Helm charts, manifests, and deployment automation; support Docker, Swarm, and Podman workloads.
• Automation & CI/CD: Develop Ansible playbooks and Infrastructure as Code, build and improve CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, and drive standardisation across engineering environments.
• Cloud & Observability: Support infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP; implement monitoring, logging, and alerting; assist with incident response and root cause analysis.
• Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, QE, Managed Services, Support, and Product teams; maintain technical documentation; participate in technical reviews and continuous improvement.
• Operational Support & On-Call: Participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting internal platforms and critical infrastructure. Assist with incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous service improvements.

Requirements

Essential

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with Ansible automation
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD and release pipelines
• Experience with GitHub Actions or similar workflow platforms
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills
• Scripting proficiency in Bash, Python, or PowerShell
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills
• Comfortable working independently in a remote-first environment
• Ability to participate in a scheduled on-call rotation and respond to production incidents when required.

Desirable

• Experience developing automation tooling, APIs, operators, or platform services in Go
• Experience with Docker Swarm and/or Podman
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability platforms
• Experience with Proxmox or other virtualisation platforms
• Experience creating VM templates and golden images
• Experience with Terraform/OpenTofu
• Experience with Portainer

Benefits

Portainer is a leading tech company offering a broad benefits package including a highly competitive salary and the ability to work anywhere in the world while still being part of a dynamic team taking on some of the most interesting challenges in the technology/infrastructure space.