Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer

Role Overview

• Design, build and operate our AWS
• and Kubernetes-based platform
• Own one or more areas (e.g. Kubernetes, observability, networking, IaC) and act as the go-to person for those topics in the team
• Operate production AWS environments (multi-account, multi-environment)
• Operate Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, capacity, reliability, security)
• Design and maintain Argo CD–based GitOps workflows (multi-cluster, multi-env)
• Contribute to CI/CD patterns and deployment strategies together with the team
• Evolve and operate our observability stack: Metrics: Prometheus, Thanos Logs: Grafana Loki Traces: Grafana Tempo Instrumentation: OpenTelemetry
• Help define SLOs, dashboards and alerting that are actually useful for teams
• Work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers and traffic routing
• Build and maintain Terraform modules and state layouts for AWS, Kubernetes and related infrastructure
• Help migrate existing/manual infrastructure to Terraform with minimal disruption
• Support connectivity and integration between cloud workloads and on-prem systems
• Collaborate with the existing Platform team – participate in design reviews, incident reviews and on-call
• Support product teams as internal customers by providing clear platform interfaces, documentation and examples

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure / operations / platform / DevOps roles
• Strong experience with AWS in production: Multi-account setups (e.g. separation of dev / test / prod)
• Networking (VPC, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers)
• Landing Zones IAM and security best practices
• Strong experience with Kubernetes in production: Operating clusters (EKS or similar)
• Workloads, deployments, autoscaling, upgrades and cluster lifecycle
• Solid observability experience with at least several of: Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana. Grafana Loki, Grafana Tempo or similar logging/tracing systems
• OpenTelemetry for metrics/logs/traces instrumentation and pipelines
• Solid networking knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, routing, VPNs, firewalls, load balancing
• Experience with Envoy (directly or via service mesh / API gateway), Ingress controllers and API gateways
• Experience with SD-VPN solutions (e.g. AWS VPN, Tailscale or similar)
• Strong experience with Terraform and Terragrun: Modular design, state management, remote backends
• Managing AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure as code at team or org scale
• Hands-on experience with Argo CD and GitOps principles: Application structure, app-of-apps patterns, promotion across environments, RBAC and ABAC
• Experience with traditional/on-prem infrastructure (VMs, networks, VPNs, storage, legacy systems) and connecting it to cloud environments
• Comfortable working in a remote-first environment in European time zones (good written communication, async collaboration)
• Nice to have: Experience with Crossplane in production
• Experience in a Platform/Enablement team serving multiple product teams.
• Experience with Argo Workflows or similar workflow/orchestration tools
• Experience with AWS Control Tower and Account Factory
• German language skills (B2)

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• DNS
• Firewalls
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus
• TCP/IP
• Terraform

Benefits

• Modern hardware and the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Besides our 100% remote work possibility, we offer an office in Hamburg (Hammerbrook) and Munich for a more personal collaboration
• Space and budget for personal growth
• Flexible working hours
• 30 days vacation
• Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
• Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills
• Corporate Benefits and Mental Health Programme
• JobRad-Leasing
• Coffee, tea and water for free in our office