About us:

We have built a platform serving hundreds of developers around the world. We provide centralized services like logging, metrics and caching to devs who deploy hundreds of times per day. We continually improve our platform and work with developers to solve their problems before they become ours. We are a distributed team but we are only separated by one hour so sometimes we travel to work with each other in person. We’re in London, Dordrecht, Berlin, Wiesbaden and Vienna

A good Platform Engineer in Springer Nature is modest and humble, open to learn from anyone regardless of age, gender, race, role or experience. Values social interactions and is able to self-reflect by asking questions. They are self-conscious and smart, but never a smart-ass. They favor building relationships over building systems. Continuously looking for improvement, but not chasing perfection and accepting failure. They have a strong preference of working together and sharing knowledge as opposed to quickly getting things done alone.

We have tons of room for innovation. Our platform is stable and the future is wide open so there is plenty of opportunity to execute your ideas at work. Every other Friday is “Hack Day” when we can spend the day doing anything. We like to go to conferences and present at them too. We experiment with new ways of working and like to try things out things before saying “no”.

We run infrastructure at scale:

Desired Skills and Experience

  • Cloud Foundry >3000 requests/second
  • Cloud Foundry >1200 apps (microservices)
  • 4000 deployments to our platform per week
  • Elasticsearch with Logstash and Kibana ~1 billion log messages per day
  • DevOps principles like Continuous Delivery, Config as Code and automating everything
  • Platform as a Service (we use Cloud Foundry open source)
  • Infrastructure as Code (we mostly use Ansible and Bosh)
  • A healthy work/life balance
  • Interesting and challenging work
  • A relaxed, positive environment
  • Enthusiastic, supportive colleagues
  • Further development to help you progress your career
  • Flexible hours, a 37 hour week and 30 days annual leave
  • Book discount of 15-40%