Platform Engineer

Position Overview

The Platform Engineer will build and automate enterprise certificate lifecycle management processes, including certificate issuance, rotation, renewal, revocation and governance.

This role is focused on hands-on implementation and delivery rather than solution design, working within a fast-paced, security-critical environment supporting a broader enterprise security programme.

Tasks

• Implement certificate rotation automation across cloud and application environments.
• Automate certificate renewal and support certificate revocation processes.
• Integrate certificate lifecycle management into cloud services and applications.
• Modify application code where required to support certificate automation.
• Support certificate management across native AWS/GCP certificate services.
• Build scalable automation around certificate operations using Terraform and Ansible.
• Support public and private cloud certificate management across Recorded Future's platforms.
• Contribute to runbooks, documentation and reusable automation for certificate operations.

Skills & Attributes

• 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience, cloud and infrastructure focused.
• Strong understanding of certificate lifecycle management (CLM) and PKI concepts.
• Experience with AWS and/or GCP, including native certificate management services.
• Strong Kubernetes and Linux skills.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and Ansible for automation.
• Strong Python skills.
• Experience with infrastructure security automation.
• Strong hands-on implementation and delivery focus.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with AppViewX (Recorded Future's selected CLM platform), Keyfactor or Venafi.
• Experience within banking, financial services or another regulated industry.
• Experience operating within a fast-paced, startup-style engineering culture.