Job Description

We are seeking a Platform Engineer with a strong interest in DevSecOps practices, cloud-native platforms, containerization, and graph databases. This role is ideal for an engineer who is eager to learn, proactive in solving problems, and motivated to grow into a technical leader while contributing to the reliability, security, and scalability of our platform ecosystem. This Platform Engineer will work closely with development, security, and operations teams to support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, container platforms, and an internal LLM-enabled application built for Neo4j, while helping to establish and follow platform best practices.

As a Platform Engineer – Neo4j you will:

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using modern DevSecOps practices, including Git-based workflows, artifact management, security controls integration, and containerized workloads (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Develop automation solutions using scripting languages or AI platforms to automate operational tasks to improve platform reliability and efficiency
• Provide platform and DevOps support for a graph database application, including deployments, upgrades, configuration management, and environment maintenance
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across storage, networking, load balancers, firewalls, and security groups, analyzing logs and metrics to identify root causes and recommend solutions
• Document platform best practices, promote operational standards, and support incident response and problem resolution efforts

Desired Skills and Experience

• 3-4 years of experience in Platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or system administration
• Experience building, deploying, maintaining, and scaling Neo4j and related applications
• Experience with Application Performance Monitoring (APM) systems, such as AppDynamics
• Experience integrating with observability and monitoring/logging tools, such as Splunk
• Must know containers, k8s, and Helm
• Exposure to Kubernetes distributions; prefer RKE experience, but similar experience with other distributions such as OpenShift acceptable
• Experience with Azure DevOps pipelines and deployments or similar (Jenkins, GitLab)
• General cloud knowledge required, GCP experience preferred
• Understand the Container Storage Interface and implemented applications, preferably Portworx CSI (PX-CSI)
• Basic understanding of: Networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls) and Load balancing (application and network)
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills
• Exposure to API gateways and API management platforms
• Understanding of security fundamentals (certificates, TLS, secrets management)
• Eager to learn and grow technically in a fast-paced environment
• Proactive and self-motivated, willing to take ownership of problems
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across teams
• Interest in building reliable, secure, and scalable platforms