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# Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Zalion
- **Location:** München, Germany
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** €80,000.0 - €125,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Identity and Access Management, Key Management, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Management of Software Versions, Mttr, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Legacy Systems
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.de/jobad/de6bd3f9f5ba2283198c0bb43efac4fea5

## 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

Zalion is on a mission to eliminate repetitive procurement work through agentic AI. We're building autonomous agents that operate deep within enterprise procurement - navigating messy data, legacy systems, and complex workflows to deliver real impact.
Join us early and help define how enterprise AI is done right.
Tasks
You will:

 * Own our platform foundations end-to-end - from AWS architecture and IaC to CI/CD, observability, and incident readiness.
 * Build and evolve secure, scalable AWS infrastructure (networking, compute, storage, IAM) optimized for reliability and cost.
 * 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.


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