Platform / DevOps Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our existing Platform team. They run a modern AWS + Kubernetes platform, but we also integrate with traditional / on-prem infrastructure. You will help design, build and operate the core platform used by our product teams: Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Working closely with other platform engineers and the Lead DevOps Engineer, owning specific areas and driving improvements end-to-end.

In addition, you'll be responsible for the following task: Platform engineering

• Design, build and operate our AWS- and Kubernetes-based platform.
• Own one or more areas (e.g. Kubernetes, observability, networking, IaC) and act as the go-to person for those topics in the team.

Cloud & Kubernetes

• Operate production AWS environments (multi-account, multi-environment).
• Operate Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, capacity, reliability, security).

GitOps & delivery

• Design and maintain Argo CD-based GitOps workflows (multi-cluster, multi-env).
• Contribute to CI/CD patterns and deployment strategies together with the team.

Observability

• Evolve and operate our observability stack:

• Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos
• Logs: Grafana Loki
• Traces: Grafana Tempo
• Instrumentation: OpenTelemetry
• Help define SLOs, dashboards and alerting that are actually useful for teams.

Networking & connectivity

• Work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers and traffic routing.
• Contribute to designs using Envoy (or Envoy-based components), API gateways and SD-VPN solutions.

Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain Terraform modules and state layouts for AWS, Kubernetes and related infrastructure.
• Help migrate existing/manual infrastructure to Terraform with minimal disruption.
• (Bonus) Use Crossplane where it makes sense for Kubernetes-driven provisioning.

Hybrid & on-prem integration

• Support connectivity and integration between cloud workloads and on-prem systems.

Collaboration

• Work as part of the existing Platform team, participate in design reviews, incident reviews and on-call.
• Support product teams as internal customers by providing clear platform interfaces, documentation and examples.

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure / operations / platform / DevOps roles.
• Strong experience with AWS in production:

• Multi-account setups (e.g. separation of dev / test / prod).
• Networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers).
• Landing Zones
• IAM and security best practices.

• Strong experience with Kubernetes in production:

• Operating clusters (EKS or similar).
• Workloads, deployments, autoscaling, upgrades and cluster lifecycle.

• Solid observability experience with at least several of:

• Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana.
• Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems.
• OpenTelemetry for metrics/logs/traces instrumentation and pipelines.

• Solid networking knowledge:

• TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing.
• Experience with Envoy (directly or via service mesh / API gateway), Ingress controllers and API gateways.

• Experience with SD-VPN solutions (e.g. AWS VPN, Tailscale or similar).
• Strong experience with Terraform and Terragrun:

• Modular design, state management, remote backends.
• Managing AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure as code at team or org scale.

• Hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps principles:

• Application structure, app-of-apps patterns, promotion across environments, RBAC and ABAC.

• Experience with traditional/on-prem infrastructure (VMs, networks, VPNs, storage, legacy systems) and connecting it to cloud environments.
• Comfortable working in a remote-first environment in European time zones (good written communication, async collaboration).

Nice to have:

• Experience with Crossplane in production.
• Experience in a Platform/Enablement team serving multiple product teams..
• Experience with Argo Workflows or similar workflow/orchestration tools.
• Experience with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory
• German language skills (B2)

A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues very often highlight our great spirit to achieve Their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, taking care of each other and growing without limits. Additionally, They offer following benefits:

• Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Besides our 100% remote work possibility, we offer an office in Hamburg (Hammerbrook) and also co-working spaces all over Europe, for a more personal collaboration
• Space and budget for personal growth
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days vacation
• Coffee, tea and water for free in our office
• JobRad-Leasing
• Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
• Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills