Staff/Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Platform

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Hamburg, Germany

5 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

5 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

startup.jobs

Tech stack

Agile Methodology Amazon Web Services Continuous Integration Key Management Reliability Engineering Datadog Data Logging Computer Network Technologies Delivery Pipeline Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Containerization

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Gitlab-ci Kubernetes Terraform Docker

Job description

Drive automation: Automate and advance our CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows (GitLab CI, Terraform) to ensure a smooth, reliable, and secure path to production for all services
Ownership: Take full ownership of critical platform components running on Kubernetes, including scaling strategies, secrets management, and core networking (VPC, ingress)
Ensure availability: Design, implement and maintain comprehensive observability solutions (monitoring, alerting, and logging using Datadog, Opensearch, and fluentd) to guarantee the platform’s flawless, uninterrupted 24/7 availability
Partner and enable: Act as an autonomous partner and expert consultant to internal development teams, treating them as key customers and collaboratively driving operational excellence across the organization

Requirements

At least 5+ years of experience as a Platform or Site Reliability Engineer
You have strong experience with AWS and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
You are confident working with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
You bring a solid background in CI/CD tools (e.g. GitLab CI)Terraform is more than a science fiction term for you
You can Go (basic to intermediate level)
You are a strong collaborator, working closely with agile development teams and internal stakeholders