Platform Engineer

This is PGS

PGS is an international company with offices in 14 countries. We support the offshore energy industry, with a range of integrated geophysical services to help find and develop renewable resources, oil & gas, and sites for carbon storage. Talented people, advanced technology and big data operations are fundamental to our success.

PGS operates offshore worldwide. Our HQ is in Oslo, and our two largest locations outside of Norway are in London and Houston.

The company culture is friendly, open and respectful, built on Norwegian values – but the workforce and markets are international. It is a combination that has attracted the sharpest minds from more than 60 nations. Future focus is more important than tradition at PGS - we constantly look ahead, as we develop the technological solutions of tomorrow.

Our core values are built upon teamwork, and working together as dedicated, reliable, pioneers. A strong company culture and the opportunity to make a difference on supplying the world with energy today are important for us.

PGS employees take pride in the quality of their own and their team’s results. Hierarchies are small, doors are always open, and social activities occur on a regular basis.

Geoscience will be key to developing new energy solutions at industrial scale, helping the world to meet the need for reliable energy and our challenging net zero targets. Will you join us?

Position Summary

PGS is looking for a Platform Engineer to strengthen its Enterprise Architecture team. As part of our modernisation and digitalisation efforts we are transitioning to a cloud first mindset and adopting Agile principles. Please come join us if you want to help design and implement innovative and modern solutions for our internal IT platform.

Main Tasks

• Provide technical expertise, design, and architecture for automating PGS IT platform
• Implement automation for PGS IT platform
• Participate to PGS IT platform cloud transition
• Facilitate the transition to DevOps and Agile practices
• Identify, evaluate, and recommend hardware and software technologies that will help develop PGS platform.

Required qualifications

• In depth knowledge of Terraform
• In depth knowledge of Ansible
• Experience with Gitlab CI/CD (or any other CI/CD platform)
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with GCP platform 
• Fluency in Python
• Linux system administration
• DevOps and GitOps workflow knowledge
• Agile software development practices
• Microservices architecture knowledge
• Documentation skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Windows environment administration (Windows server/Azure).
• Web development familiarity (JavaScript/React)

Why work at PGS

• A dynamic and international working environment.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Development opportunities.
• High HSEQ focus and ambitions.
• Flexible and balanced working environment with a hybrid working model.

This role can be based either in Weybridge, UK or Oslo, Norway.