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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** Zalion - **Location:** München, Germany - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** €80,000.0 - €125,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Application Release Automation, Continuous Integration, Data as a Services, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Prometheus, Management of Software Versions, Datadog, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Grafana, Mttr, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, AWS Fargate, Terraform, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing - **Published:** July 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.de/details/5804555830 ## About the Role * Strong experience as a Platform / DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer in product teams shipping to production. * Deep practical knowledge of AWS: networking, IAM, security controls, and designing for failure. * Hands-on expertise with Terraform: modules, state strategy, DRY patterns, environment separation, and automated reviews. * Solid CI/CD engineering experience with GitHub: pipeline design, artifact/versioning, deployment safety, and fast feedback loops. * A strong mindset for reliability and operability: you think in failure modes, automation, and measurable outcomes (SLOs). * Security awareness and discipline: you build guardrails that make the secure path the easy path. * A builder mindset: you ship improvements, measure impact (lead time, deploy frequency, MTTR), and iterate. * Comfort with ambiguity and ownership: you proactively identify platform bottlenecks and fix them without waiting for perfect specs. * 4+ years experience in relevant roles (startup/scale-up experience is a plus). ## Description * Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines on GitHub that are fast, repeatable, and developer-friendly (clear feedback loops, safe deploys, strong defaults). * Define and operate infrastructure using Terraform - with clean modules, sensible standards, and automated validation. * Improve developer experience through golden paths: templates, self-service environments, paved roads for deployments, and internal tooling that removes friction. * Drive availability, scalability, and resilience: deployment strategies, rollbacks, capacity planning, DR thinking, and performance tuning. * Implement pragmatic security-by-default: least privilege IAM, secrets management, secure supply chain, and guardrails that enable speed without compromising safety. * Establish and refine observability and reliability practices (SLOs/SLIs, monitoring, alerting, postmortems, runbooks) that scale with the team. * Partner closely with product engineering to reduce operational load and keep delivery velocity high as Zalion grows., * AWS (core services; compute, networking, IAM, logging/monitoring, managed data services) * Terraform (modules, workspaces, validation, state management) * GitHub (Actions, CI/CD workflows, checks, release automation) * Containers orchestration (e.g., ECS/Fargate and/or Kubernetes depending on evolution) * Observability tooling (metrics, logs, tracing; e.g., Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry and friends) * Security tooling (SAST/DAST, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, policy as code ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [What Developers Get Wrong About Application Quality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/233-what-developers-get-wrong-about-application-quality) - [Empowering Thousands of Developers: Our Journey to an Internal Developer Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1519-empowering-thousands-of-developers-our-journey-to-an-internal-developer-platform) - [Platform Engineering vs. DevOps Why not both?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/885-platform-engineering-vs-devops-why-not-both) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [The Biggest German Tech Companies](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/424-the-biggest-german-tech-companies) - [Where To Find Software Engineering Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/396-where-to-find-software-engineering-jobs) - [Top-Paying Tech Jobs (with Salaries)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/372-top-paying-tech-jobs-with-salaries) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [7 Most Popular Web Developer Jobs in Europe](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/163-7-most-popular-web-developer-jobs-in-europe)