Platform Support Engineer

Who you are

• Hands-on experience with at least one of: AWS (console + CLI), Kubernetes (kubectl, real triage experience), Terraform (reading plans, running applies)
• Comfortable triaging platform issues independently, knowing what to look for without being told and able to investigate before escalating
• Experience communicating technical problems and resolutions to non-technical stakeholders
• Can engage confidently in technical conversations with Platform Engineers when investigating complex issues, contributing context and understanding the response
• Proactively flags risks and scope changes to stakeholders before they become problems
• Able to identify gaps in documentation and close them, not just follow what exists
• Familiarity with observability tooling (Datadog or similar), using it to understand system behaviour, not just confirm alerts
• Experience in a support, SRE, or platform ops role in a high-scale environment
• Experience with GitOps workflows, understanding how infrastructure changes flow from code to production
• Familiarity with incident management tooling (PagerDuty, incident.io, Rootly, or similar), not just receiving alerts but owning the response flow
• Exposure to a client-facing or stakeholder-heavy environment (TAMs, CDLs, or similar non-engineering audiences)
• Scripting ability in Python, Bash, or similar, enough to automate a repetitive task or parse logs efficiently

What the job involves

• Platform Support Engineering is a new team within Kraken’s Platform department. It will be the primary contact point for most day-to-day engineering interactions between the company’s 2,000 staff and the 120 engineers in the Platform department. The team will handle a high volume of tickets each month, supporting the business across a myriad of clients in the EU, North America, and Australia-Pacific regions on a 24/5 basis
• This role sits in the middle of that function, owning investigations end-to-end and beginning to shape the team's tooling and processes. You'll work with enough independence to own complex investigations, and close enough to the platform to keep developing your technical depth
• Act as the primary contact point for platform-related requests and non-critical incidents from engineers, Technical Account Managers, and Client Delivery Leads
• Triage incoming tickets and alerts, gathering context and reproducing issues where possible
• Monitor platform alerting channels and respond to non-critical alerts in line with defined processes
• Resolve routine platform requests (access, configuration changes, environment queries, etc.)
• Escalate complex technical issues to the relevant Platform Engineering teams for investigation and resolution, capturing their input and formalising it into runbooks for future use
• Escalate to Senior Platform Support Engineers or the Platform Support Lead where pushback or seniority is required
• Communicate clearly across a range of technical and non-technical audiences, translating between the two where needed
• Identify recurring problems and flag opportunities to improve tooling, automation or documentation
• Maintain and improve runbooks, FAQs and internal documentation
• Work closely with Platform Engineers to build your understanding of how the platform is built and operated
• Take ownership of ticket investigations end-to-end, including identifying when to escalate severity without prompting
• Proactively flag risks and scope changes to stakeholders before they become problems
• Identify and close gaps in team documentation without being asked
• Begin contributing to tooling and automation improvements: scoped, well-defined pieces that reduce toil or improve the support workflow
• What success looks like in this role:
• You're comfortable with ambiguity. Platform Support sits at the intersection of engineering, clients, and product. Not every ticket has a clean answer. The people who do well here move through uncertainty rather than waiting for it to resolve
• You communicate before you're asked to. Stakeholders (engineers, TAMs, CDLs) care most about knowing what's happening. Proactive, accurate updates matter more than perfect resolutions
• You treat runbooks as a floor, not a ceiling. Following a runbook is the starting point. Finding the gap in it, fixing it, and making the next person's job easier is the standard we're aiming for
• You escalate with context, not just symptoms. When something needs to go up the chain, it goes up with a clear problem statement, what's been tried, and what's needed. You don't just hand off the stress

Benefits

• Equity option scheme: Everyone who works at Kraken owns a part of the business with shares in the Octopus Energy Group. So as the company grows we all benefit
• Pension scheme: We'll pay 5%. You decide on your contribution starting from 3%
• Holidays: We don't count your holiday days. We trust everyone to work hard and take as much time off as they need
• Flexible working: We're happy for you to work in a way that's best for you. Need to pick the kids up from school or work from home? That's not a problem. It's important to us that everyone has a positive work-life balance
• Free breakfast: Our offices are always stocked with fresh fruit, breakfast, snacks, great coffee and soft drinks.

Weekly on a Friday we all get together (including virtually) for company updates and drinks

• For parents: We can arrange access to tax free childcare, as well as maternity and paternity pay
• Free eye tests: We offer eye test vouchers for all colleagues who use Visual Display Units (VDU). Long spells of VDU work can be visually demanding so we want to make sure you're OK
• Car salary sacrifice: Save money on leasing an electric vehicle through our workplace salary sacrifice scheme
• Cycle to work scheme: Spread the cost of buying a bike, including accessories and safety equipment, up to a value of £2.5K. And save money on the repayments through the cycle to work scheme
• Get the right tech: Have a certain tech requirement? We’ll do our best to sort it for you
• Money coach: Get support with financial planning through our partnership with Octopus Money Coach
• Yoga + Headspace: Twice a week we have 45 Minute live yoga class open to all Kraken staff.

Need some calm in your life? We have Headspace licences available

• Team events and activities: Participate in team events and cohesion activities to build stronger connections
• Health Insurance: We’ll provide comprehensive coverage with Alan and access to Alan Mind.
• Transportation: If you cycle to the office we’ll support you by up to €600/year, if you use public transport we'll reimburse 75% of your Navigo pass. If you use both, we'll support you by up to €900/year
• Green energy discount: Enjoy a 32% discount on green energy compared to the regulated tariff
• Year-end gift voucher: Receive a €100 gift voucher at the end of each year
• Gymlib subscription: Get a subscription to Gymlib for access to a wide variety of fitness options
• Meal vouchers: Enjoy €10 Ticket Restaurant cards for meal expenses
• NGO support days: Benefit from three additional RTT days (Reduction of Working Time) to support NGO work, every year