Wed, 01/28/2026 - 00:45
Platform Engineer / Engineering Enablement
Building services that enable others
Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers. It is home to an array of respected and trusted brands and imprints, with more than 170 years of combined history behind them, providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services. Every day, around the globe, our imprints, books, journals and resources reach millions of people, helping researchers and scientists to discover, students to learn and professionals to achieve their goals and ambitions. The company has around 10,000 staff in over 50 countries.
We’re looking for an experienced Platform Engineer (m/f/d) to help us shape, build and improve our unified platforms and their integrated capabilities to enable Springer Nature’s product teams to focus on delivering value.
About us: Engineering Enablement
The Engineering Enablement department consists of around 60 people, spread over teams that closely collaborate to fulfil our mission. In Springer Nature Technology we serve different core expertise: PaaS, Databases, Observability, Cloud and Release Engineering. You will join a multidisciplinary team with different nationalities, backgrounds and experience levels. We are a very distributed department but sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We are based around the globe with main locations in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, and Lisbon.
Our Technology
We have built platforms serving hundreds of developers around the world at scale. We are making more and more use of Kubernetes as a backend container platform and integrating this into our platform offering. We are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to build a new PaaS that will co-exist with the current Cloud Foundry Platform, as well as managing an internal database platform that runs over 1,200 database servers.
Your Responsibility
Together with the team, you will share the responsibility of developing and improving our platforms along with maintenance tasks, documentation, running updates and keeping our systems secure. As a department, we focus and engage on providing a unified and standardised platform by using modern and open standards. Our unified platform approach is encompassed by core capabilities, like observability, continuous integration, security and storage. We therefore closely collaborate within our department so that the core capabilities get tightly integrated and the product teams within Springer Nature are provided with a unified experience.
This role is within the Database Engineering team, who maintain, develop and scale our managed database capability. Your initial focus will be on strengthening our database infrastructure platform. You will have the opportunity to work on new challenges and drive evolution of the platform together with the team.
Core technologies in use:
* Terraform, Ansible,
* Postgres, Mongo, MySQL
* GCP, AWS
* Docker
* Concourse, GitHub Actions
* Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry
* Cloud Foundry
* Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE
About you
You are a friendly team member who is modest, humble and open to learning from anyone regardless of age, gender, race, role or experience. You value social interactions and are open to feedback and introspection. You are confident in your abilities but aware of your limitations. You have a strong preference for working together, collaborating across domains and practices, sharing knowledge and training others. You understand the value of doing meaningful and sustainable work rather than implementing temporary fixes to meet arbitrary deadlines.
Essential Skills and Experience:
* Experience in operating and maintaining cloud infrastructure at scale
* Programming experience with Golang, Ruby, Python or at least one modern language
* Experience in contributing to the architecture and design of new and existing systems
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
* Experience with automation frameworks (e.g. Terraform, Puppet or Ansible)
* Knowledge of Observability practices (centralised monitoring and telemetry)
* Familiarity with Docker and containerization
* Ability to work in a team context with a focus on collaboration and shared ownership
Desirable Skills and Experience:
* Familiarity with Database technologies and/or running Databases at scale
* Written and maintained Rest APIs or web applications
* Took a project through the full software lifecycle from early designs to production deployments.
* Managed production Kubernetes resources and deployments using tools and languages like Kubectl, Helm, or Terraform
We are looking forward to getting your application. After reviewing your CV our Talent Acquisition team will contact you to schedule a short initial phone/video call. After getting this first step we will run 2-3 rounds (introductory, technical, cultural) with you - all of these with different members of the Engineering Enablement team. When appropriate these phases will be held via phone /video calls.
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