Platform Engineering Consultant

About This Role

Build and operate infrastructure that powers open source software at scale. You will work directly with client engineering teams to design, deploy and maintain production platforms. Kubernetes is central to how we work and a tool we are investing in heavily, but the role spans the broader infrastructure landscape.

This isn't passive infrastructure management. You will be solving real operational problems, recommending open source solutions that genuinely fit the problem and helping clients build platforms they can own and maintain long term.

This role combines deep technical work with collaborative consulting. You will partner with client engineering teams to solve their toughest infrastructure challenges, develop genuine platform expertise and grow into technical leadership over time.

Location: Fully remote (preference for EU or East Coast US hours)

Travel: Optional conference attendance

What You'll Actually Do

Platform Engineering: Design, deploy and maintain production infrastructure for client workloads: Kubernetes is a key part of our toolkit and you will use it regularly, but you will also work across the broader platform stack including networking, storage, observability and CI/CD

Reliability Engineering: Own the operational health of client platforms: you are comfortable with incident response, post-mortems and building systems that fail gracefully

Open Source Solutions: Favour open source tooling that is well-maintained and community-aligned. You do not need to be an active upstream contributor, but you should understand the ecosystems you are working in and be able to evaluate tools critically

Infrastructure as Code: Treat infrastructure configuration as software: version controlled, reviewed and repeatable. This is a mindset as much as a skill set and it shapes how you approach every engagement

Client Partnership: Translate client operational needs into technical solutions. You will help clients understand the trade-offs between convenience and long-term maintainability

Navigate Constraints: Balance technical excellence with real-world pressures: customer deadlines, legacy infrastructure, budget limitations, all while keeping quality high

Be a Technical Advisor: Explain complex infrastructure decisions to product and engineering teams, provide honest timelines and build trust through transparent communication

Grow the Practice: As you develop in the role, you will take on more responsibility for shaping how Collabora delivers infrastructure consultancy - mentoring colleagues and leading client engagements

What We're Looking For

Required

Solid Kubernetes experience. You are comfortable operating clusters in production, troubleshooting workload failures, managing networking and storage and navigating unfamiliar configurations independently. You do not