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# Senior Platform Engineer

- **Company:** PlayStation Global
- **Location:** Berlin, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon Web Services, Linux, DevOps, Design of User Interfaces, Python (Programming Language), Networking Basics, Open Source Technology, Datadog, Data Logging, Grafana, Kubernetes, Terraform, Splunk
- **Published:** May 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://de.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=294de931d32f2184

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * 5-6+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, or DevOps

 * Hands-on experience with OpenTelemetry, or strong familiarity with the ecosystem and a genuine eagerness to go deep - instrumentation, collectors, exporters, and pipelines
 * Proven experience building and operating observability platforms (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
 * Development experience in one or more of the following: Go (preferred), Java, Python
 * Production experience with Kubernetes and container-based infrastructure
 * Experience with cloud platforms, particularly AWS
 * Strong Linux and networking fundamentals
 * Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively across distributed, cross-timezone teams
 * High degree of autonomy and ownership - you drive things to completion

Nice to Have:

 * Active involvement or contributions in the OpenTelemetry open source ecosystem or any other CNCF projects
 * Experience with Datadog and/or Grafana and/or Splunk and/or Cribl
 * Experience with Helm, ArgoCD, and Argo Rollout
 * Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred)
 * Experience building Kubernetes operators and extending the Kubernetes platform

## Description

* Play a key hands-on role in the company-wide adoption of OpenTelemetry, implementing and contributing to the reduction of vendor lock-in across our current observability tooling (Datadog, Grafana, and bespoke solutions)
 * Design, build, and operate a centralized observability platform covering metrics, logs, traces, alerting, and profiling
 * Establish and promote observability best practices and standards across engineering teams
 * Develop tooling and automation directly tied to the observability platform
 * Treat the observability platform as a product - with internal engineering teams as customers - striving for a great self-service experience, clear documentation, and intuitive interfaces
 * Collaborate closely with distributed engineering teams across Berlin, California, and Australia
 * Mentor and guide engineers on observability principles and practices
 * Contribute to technical design discussions and help shape platform decisions within the team


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