Cloud Platform Engineer

About the role

The team scales infrastructure to handle growing mission-critical flight operations and defense workloads. This role builds and maintains platforms that deliver operational decision superiority for airline customers. The work supports 24/7 critical operations and high-availability requirements. You will own the design and evolution of the core infrastructure that powers these capabilities. Your daily work will focus on ensuring that data flows reliably and securely through every layer of the stack. You will be responsible for removing bottlenecks so that product teams can move quickly without sacrificing stability. Ultimately, this position ensures that the platform remains a durable foundation for customer success.

Key facts

What you'll do

The system captures reliable performance data that feeds monitoring dashboards using Grafana, Prometheus, and Graphite to alert teams about issues in real time.

Infrastructure runs on Kubernetes clusters managed through AWS services, Docker containers, Terraform, and Helm to deliver scalable and resilient platforms.

Python services add new platform features that directly support airline customers and their operational decision workflows.

CI/CD pipelines orchestrated by CircleCI automate testing and deployment to accelerate releases and uphold stability.

Relational data services use AWS PostgreSQL to store and manage information while enforcing security and performance standards.

Cross-team collaboration with product, infrastructure, and operations teams coordinates responses to evolving business priorities.

Development workflows incorporate modern LLM tools to review code, suggest improvements, and sustain high quality.

You will translate ambiguous operational requirements into concrete infrastructure specifications.

You will automate routine platform tasks to reduce manual effort and increase system reliability.

You will tune monitoring alerts to distinguish noise from true signals that require immediate action.

You will safeguard restricted data environments while enabling fast and safe deployments.

You will mentor other engineers on best practices for cloud infrastructure and deployment strategies.

Requirements

The posting states a bachelor's degree requirement. A degree is required for this position.

Experience maintains and grows infrastructure stacks that include Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, Terraform, Helm, and Python.

Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, Docker, and object-oriented programming pairs with expertise in AWS PostgreSQL, Helm, Terraform, Python 3, and Grafana.

Understanding of CI/CD pipelines using CircleCI ensures reliable and repeatable software delivery.

Flexibility adjusts to changing business priorities while preserving system reliability and uptime.

Ability collaborates across multiple teams to align technical solutions with mission objectives.

You must be authorized to work in Poland without sponsorship.

You must be available to work during business hours in the Gdańsk time zone.

Practical notes

The role works with export-controlled technology and restricted U.S. Government data.

Employment offers require timely authorization and clearance for all stated job duties.

Typical interview steps

Platform interviews usually include an infrastructure scenario, a scripting or coding exercise, and operational questions. Candidates may be asked to design a deployment pipeline or debug an outage. Incident experience and an automation mindset are tested. Interviewers often ask about a past outage and how you handled it. Structured post-incident thinking, not heroics, is what they look for.

Good to know

Cloud platform roles emphasize infrastructure as code and automated delivery pipelines.

Container orchestration with Kubernetes and monitoring with Grafana are central to modern operations.

CI/CD pipelines reduce risk by automating builds, tests, and deployments.

Air-gapped or restricted environments demand strict controls on data and access.

Python remains a common language for cloud services and integration tasks.

Questions to ask

Useful questions for the interview: what a typical week looks like, how work is assigned, what tools the team uses, and how feedback works. Asking how the role has changed recently and what the team wishes it had known when joining is also reasonable. Questions about the manager's priorities are especially valued.

Career growth

Platform careers grow from engineer to senior, staff, and platform lead roles. Some people move into SRE leadership or cloud architecture. Breadth across networking, storage, and reliability becomes more important at senior levels. Platform careers reward breadth and calm under pressure. Experience automating your own work is the strongest signal for senior roles.

About the company

Airspace Intelligence.com is hiring for Cloud Platform Engineer. Gdańsk, Poland.