Platform Engineer

Aspire Software

We re hiring a Platform Engineer to help us improve the reliability and reduce the complexity of our platform. This is a blended role across infrastructure, automation, and development ideal for someone who works across the stack, makes pragmatic decisions, and treats both development and operations teams as their customers.

You will focus on two interconnected areas: maintaining and evolving our platform components (WildFly, ActiveMQ, Keycloak, and the Java abstraction layer on top of them), and improving our release engineering pipeline (GitLab, Jenkins) and Deployment Manager tooling with Ansible.

We move fast and value people who can hit the ground running you ll have real ownership from day one.

What You ll Do

• Own and evolve our platform components WildFly, ActiveMQ, Keycloak, and the Java abstraction layer that makes them usable for product teams
• Improve the release engineering pipeline (GitLab, Jenkins) and build automation making deployments more reliable and less error-prone
• Maintain and extend the Java-based Deployment Manager and Ansible playbooks for virtual machine environments (on-premises, Azure, AWS)
• Question complexity and simplify wherever justified your goal is a platform that teams don t have to think about because it just works
• Support the migration of on-premises infrastructure to Azure or AWS
• Collaborate with development and operations teams you serve both as customers, not as a back-office function
• Use AI tools actively to improve test coverage, documentation quality, automation, and problem-solving

How You Work

We re hiring for mindset as much as skills. The right person for this role:

• Improves what exists rather than advocating for rewrites you respect what s running in production
• Constantly questions whether complexity is justified and has the conviction to simplify it when it isn t
• Treats product and operations teams as customers you gather feedback, iterate on solutions, and measure success by whether people actually want to use what you ve built
• Takes pride in making things boringly reliable predictable, rock-solid, unsexy but excellent
• Embraces AI as a genuine part of the daily craft not experimentation on the side, but real working habits that make you faster and better
• Works independently and stays structured prioritises effectively and communicates clearly
• Is comfortable with ambiguity and can create order where there isn t any yet

• Background in IT Operations, Systems Administration, or Site Reliability Engineering
• Hands-on experience with automation tooling especially Ansible and scripting (Bash, Python)
• Solid Java development skills enough to maintain and extend our Deployment Manager and platform abstraction layer
• Experience with Linux/Windows virtual machine environments and cloud administration (Azure and/or AWS)
• Familiarity with platform infrastructure components application servers, message queues, or authentication platforms you ve worked with the category even if not our exact stack
• Proven, hands-on use of AI tools as a core part of your workflow not just awareness
• Professional-level English, written and verbal