Platform Engineer (CyberSecurity)
Location: Kraków, Poland (Hybrid – 6 days per month in the office)
Contract Type: B2B
Competitive Daily Rate
International Project
We are looking for an experienced Platform Engineer (CyberSecurity) to join a large-scale transformation programme focused on Identity and Access Management (IDAM). This is an exciting opportunity to work on a modern cloud-native platform leveraging Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as Code, GitOps, and DevSecOps practices.
As part of a highly skilled engineering team, you will help design, build, and operate secure, scalable, and resilient platform services supporting critical enterprise systems.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain cloud-native platform services in Google Cloud Platform.
- Design, deploy, and manage Kubernetes clusters and supporting platform components.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or equivalent).
- Implement and support CI/CD pipelines and GitOps deployment practices.
- Manage cloud networking, connectivity, load balancing, and platform security.
- Implement observability solutions including logging, monitoring, metrics, and distributed tracing.
- Automate platform provisioning, configuration management, and operational processes.
- Support deployment and operation of identity-related platform services.
- Implement secure secrets management and certificate lifecycle automation.
- Configure and manage Service Mesh technologies such as Istio and Envoy.
- Manage ingress controllers, API gateways, and network routing components.
- Ensure platform resilience, high availability, backup, and disaster recovery capabilities.
- Support workload identity and authentication mechanisms.
- Ensure compliance with security, governance, and regulatory requirements.
- Optimize platform performance, scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Develop operational tooling, automation scripts, and self-service capabilities.
- Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, and provide operational support.
- Collaborate closely with Security, Architecture, and Engineering teams.
- Contribute to platform standards, technical documentation, and operational runbooks.
Requirements
Must-Have Skills
- Proven experience as a Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer, DevSecOps Engineer, or similar role.
- Strong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Solid experience managing Kubernetes in production environments.
- Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Practical knowledge of GitOps methodologies.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Understanding of networking, load balancing, and cloud connectivity.
- Experience with Service Mesh technologies (Istio, Envoy).
- Knowledge of container platforms and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with observability tools and practices (logging, monitoring, tracing).
- Scripting and automation skills (Bash, Python, or similar).
- Good understanding of DevSecOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
- Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Identity and Access Management (IAM/IDAM) platforms.
- Knowledge of PKI, certificate management, and workload identity.
- Experience with secrets management solutions.
- Exposure to large-scale enterprise environments.
- Experience supporting globally distributed platforms.
If you are passionate about cloud-native technologies, platform engineering, and cybersecurity, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and help build the next generation of secure enterprise platforms.