[Remote] Platform Engineering Consultant (Remote/Anywhere)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Collabora is a company focused on building and operating infrastructure for open source software at scale. They are seeking a Platform Engineering Consultant to design, deploy, and maintain production platforms, working closely with client engineering teams to solve operational challenges.

Responsibilities

• 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
• Own the operational health of client platforms: you are comfortable with incident response, post-mortems and building systems that fail gracefully
• 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
• 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
• Translate client operational needs into technical solutions. You will help clients understand the trade-offs between convenience and long-term maintainability
• Balance technical excellence with real-world pressures: customer deadlines, legacy infrastructure, budget limitations, all while keeping quality high
• Explain complex infrastructure decisions to product and engineering teams, provide honest timelines and build trust through transparent communication
• 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

Skills

• 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 need to have seen everything, but you should know how to find your way
• Broader infrastructure competence. Kubernetes is not the whole job. You are comfortable working across the platform stack: networking, storage, Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines and observability tooling
• Infrastructure as Code mindset. You treat infrastructure configuration as software: version controlled, peer reviewed and repeatable. You are uncomfortable with manual changes to production systems and you can articulate why. Experience with Ansible, Terraform or equivalent tooling is expected
• SRE or customer-facing support background. You are comfortable diagnosing and resolving issues reported by clients, often from vague descriptions and limited reproduction steps. You understand that good incident response is as much about communication as it is about technical skill
• Consultancy or client-facing technical background. You know how to balance technical excellence with business constraints, manage expectations across multiple projects and advocate for the right solution while respecting customer timelines
• Strong English communication skills, both spoken and written, for documentation, incident reports and client discussions
• Self-directed work style. You thrive in a remote, asynchronous environment and take ownership of your work without needing close supervision
• Helm familiarity is useful. We use it regularly on client engagements and you will pick it up quickly if you have not worked with it deeply yet
• Cloud provider experience: AWS, GCP or Azure experience informs good infrastructure decisions; understanding the primitives matters
• CI/CD pipeline experience: GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or equivalent
• Observability tooling: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry or similar
• Security and compliance awareness: network policy, RBAC, pod security standards or supply chain security tooling
• Scripting and automation: Python, Bash or Go for operational tooling
• Rust: increasingly relevant for infrastructure utilities and systems-level tooling; not a primary requirement but a genuine advantage
• Open source contribution history. We know not every employer makes this easy. Active community participation at any level is valued and we will support you in building that profile as part of the role

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience and location
• Office setup budget
• Sabbatical/Retention of Services - after five years continuous service
• Co-working policy - support for working outside home
• Wellness assessments - biannual wellbeing assessments with a trained mental health specialist
• Conference attendance -we cover expenses and encourage speaking opportunities
• Open source time - contribute to projects you care about
• Fully remote - work where you’re most productive
• Global team - engineers across Europe, Americas and Asia
• No on-call rotations - this isn't support work
• Sustainable pace - we're here for the marathon, not the sprint
• Flexible hours - manage your own schedule
• Upstream contributions - your work shapes Linux, not just client products
• Technical leadership track - path to principal engineer, subsystem expertise or technical architecture roles
• Consulting track - develop deeper client relationships, lead customer engagements or shape service offerings
• Mentorship opportunities - both receiving and providing guidance
• Conference speaking - we support presentation submissions and provide coaching
• Recognition - your contributions are public, building your professional reputation

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