Senior Platform Engineer

We are on a mission to become the leading international force in residential property management. What we do matters to millions of people in their everyday lives.

Residential real estate is the worlds largest asset class and for most families buying a home is the single biggest financial decision they will ever make. For too long residential property management has fallen short of homeowners and residents expectations and the industry is ready for change. Odevo was formed to make that change happen.

In just six years Odevo has grown more than 70-fold establishing us as the leading international player. We are more than 14000 people across the US the UK the Nordics Germany Spain Portugal Mexico and Italy building Odevo. Together we aspire to break new ground through innovation and cultivate a workplace where we help each other succeed where ideas matter more than titles and where kindness is a strength.

By combining the power of people and technology we set a new standard for how homes are managed. Our technology-enabled services simplify living for residents and create a better experience for property owners and boards.

Our ambition is to continue our fast-growing journey through new customers service expansion and by partnering with great companies that share our mindset and ambition both in existing and new markets.

As we continue to grow we stay true to who we are challenge unnecessary bureaucracy and keep decision-making close to our customers.

If you share our mindset and ambition wed love you to join us and help accelerate our mission together.

As Senior Platform Engineer you will design develop and continuously improve secure scalable and reliable cloud-native platforms based on Microsoft Azure and Azure Kubernetes Service. The role combines hands-on engineering with platform architecture and technical leadership providing standardised infrastructure Kubernetes services deployment capabilities and self-service solutions that enable development teams to deliver applications efficiently.

You will ensure that cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes environments are automated repeatable observable and governed according to security and operational best practices and establish the technical standards reusable patterns and documentation required to support consistent platform adoption across the organisation.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Defining platform strategies technical roadmaps and architectural standards and translating business application security and operational requirements into scalable platform capabilities.

• Providing technical leadership throughout the design implementation operation and continuous improvement of shared platforms including technical design reviews of changes to shared platforms and security boundaries.

• Designing and managing Azure infrastructure from AKS clusters networking and container registries to identity secrets backup and PostgreSQL services using infrastructure as code and automated pipelines.

• Designing and operating GitOps-based delivery models and establishing Kubernetes platform services.

• Designing secure authentication and authorisation models implementing Kubernetes governance and admission-control policies and maintaining least-privilege isolation between applications teams workloads and platform services.

• Supporting software supply-chain security through image signing verification controlled deployment pipelines and repository controls.

• Designing self-service onboarding and provisioning capabilities with platform automation that is idempotent repeatable and supported by validation dry-run or what-if capabilities.

• Developing observability solutions and defining platform-health monitoring alerting capacity-management autoscaling reliability and incident follow-up practices.

• Creating proofs of concept and evaluating new technologies to validate architectural decisions reduce implementation risk and develop platform-engineering standards and best practices.

• Collaborating with application development DevOps security infrastructure architecture and observability stakeholders and supporting application teams with platform integration migration deployment patterns and troubleshooting.

• Maintaining technical documentation including architecture diagrams design decisions configuration standards implementation guides operator handbooks and user documentation.

Who you are

• Analytical and architectural: Brings excellent analytical architectural and problem-solving skills with the ability to gather and evaluate requirements and conduct proofs of concept.

• Technical leader: Able to lead technical initiatives and balance developer experience with security reliability governance and operational requirements.

• Strong communicator: Communicates complex designs clearly with excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills.

Key qualifications and experience

Strong practical experience across the following areas:

• Cloud and Azure: Azure Azure Kubernetes Service Entra ID managed identities Key Vault Azure Container Registry Private Link Azure Backup PostgreSQL Flexible Server and Azure DevOps.

• Infrastructure as code automation and development: Bicep Terraform Bash Go TypeScript YAML HCL GitHub Actions Azure Pipelines OIDC federation and GitHub Apps.

• Kubernetes and GitOps: Kubernetes ArgoCD Helm Kustomize Gateway API Envoy Gateway cert-manager external-dns External Secrets Operator Azure Service Operator Kyverno Karpenter Cilium Calico Istio and custom horizontal pod autoscaling.

• Observability and reliability: Grafana Grafana Cloud Mimir Loki Tempo Alloy kube-state-metrics Prometheus Thanos Alertmanager and Kibana.

• Security and governance: Workload identity federated credentials RBAC custom roles admission control multi-tenant security policy enforcement image signing and verification CODEOWNERS repository rulesets and the Notary Project.

• Delivery and service management: Requirements gathering technical roadmaps platform documentation Jira Service Desk and the Atlassian suite.

Excited

Get in touch! We look forward to receiving your application! If you have any questions please feel free to contact Henrietta Talent Lead at Odevo.

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