Platform Engineer

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Platform Engineer

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Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to powerful computing resources. We're building a fully featured European cloud computing platform—with everything one needs to run, scale, and deploy applications and workloads. In addition, our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big! Join Verda while it’s still being built - not once it’s finished.

WHY VERDA

\* Cash + equity compensation along with various fringe benefits (e.g., healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.).

\* Profitable operations with rapid, sustained growth.

\* 31 nationalities, with 6 different ones on the management team.

\* An opportunity with make a clear impact and work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.

PRACTICALITIES

\* Hybrid mode: This role requires presence in our Helsinki office 3 days per week. Don’t worry - you won’t be alone or hangry there. (We keep a stocked fridge…)

\* Employment type: Full-time and permanent.

RESPONSIBILITIES

\* Build, operate, and improve self-hosted Kubernetes platforms across deployment, automation, scaling, upgrades, and production operations

\* Maintain platform reliability through on-call participation, incident response, and troubleshooting

\* Manage Kubernetes infrastructure including networking, observability, storage, and platform services

\* Develop infrastructure automation using Ansible, GitOps, and CI/CD workflows

\* Collaborate with engineering teams to improve developer experience, deployment processes, and operational efficiency

\* Operate and troubleshoot Linux systems, container platforms, and distributed infrastructure

\* Implement Kubernetes networking and security best practices, including cluster hardening and access controls

\* Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools to improve automation, operations, and troubleshooting

\* Contribute to platform standards, documentation, and operational best practices

KEY COMPETENCIES

\* 3-7 years operating production Kubernetes environments

\* Strong experience managing self-hosted Kubernetes clusters end-to-end

\* Hands-on experience with Kubernetes operations, upgrades, scaling, and troubleshooting

\* Experience with on-call rotations and production incident management

\* Strong background in infrastructure automation (Ansible), GitOps, and CI/CD

\* Solid Linux administration and debugging skills

\* Experience with containerized and cloud-native infrastructure

\* Understanding of Kubernetes networking, CNI plugins, and platform security

\* Scripting or programming experience (Python, Bash, Go, or similar)

\* Comfortable using AI-powered tooling to improve engineering workflows

\* Strong collaboration and communication skills

NICE TO HAVE

\* Experience with Rancher and Cilium

\* Familiarity with Kubernetes security policies and cluster hardening

\* Experience with GPU workloads, AI/ML infrastructure, or NVIDIA container runtimes

\* Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki

\* Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes ecosystem tools (ArgoCD, Helm, Kustomize, operators)

\* Knowledge of distributed systems, storage, and high-availability environments

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