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# Staff/Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Platform

- **Company:** Listitem
- **Location:** Hamburg, Germany
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Gitlab-ci, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker
- **Published:** September 5, 2026
- **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/staff-senior-platform-engineer-cloud-platform-all-genders-about-you-se-co-kg-9887149

## About the Role

* 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

## 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