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Senior Platform Engineer

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Job Description

Senior Platform/ DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Full-time

  • Remote

Stott and May are excited to be working with Innovative software business who are disrupting the Smart Homes Space. They help customers by making buildings more climate-friendly, more comfortable, and more affordable using Smart connected devices (IoT), simple products and high processing and service quality.

Your mission

We are looking for a Senior Platform / DevOps Engineer to join our existing Platform team. They run a modern AWS + Kubernetes platform, but we also integrate with traditional / on-prem infrastructure.

You will help design, build and operate the core platform used by our product teams: Kubernetes clusters, networking, observability, GitOps, and infrastructure as code. Working closely with other platform engineers and the Lead DevOps Engineer, owning specific areas and driving improvements end-to-end.

In Addition, You'll Be Responsible For The Following Task

Platform engineering

  • 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.

Cloud & Kubernetes

  • Operate production AWS environments (multi-account, multi-environment).
  • Operate Kubernetes clusters (upgrades, capacity, reliability, security).

GitOps & delivery

  • Design and maintain Argo CD–based GitOps workflows (multi-cluster, multi-env).
  • Contribute to CI/CD patterns and deployment strategies together with the team.

Observability

  • 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.
Networking & connectivity

  • Work on Kubernetes networking, Ingress controllers and traffic routing.
  • Contribute to designs using Envoy (or Envoy-based components), API gateways and SD-VPN solutions.

Infrastructure as Code

  • Build and maintain Terraform modules and state layouts for AWS, Kubernetes and related infrastructure.
  • Help migrate existing/manual infrastructure to Terraform with minimal disruption.
  • (Bonus) Use Crossplane where it makes sense for Kubernetes-driven provisioning.

Hybrid & on-prem integration

  • Support connectivity and integration between cloud workloads and on-prem systems.

Collaboration

  • Work as part of 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.

Experience

  • 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)

What’s On Offer

A modern environment with flat hierarchies. Colleagues very often highlight our great spirit to achieve Their goals. The company is a place to be yourself, aim high, taking care of each other and growing without limits. Additionally, They offer following 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 also co-working spaces all over Europe, for a more personal collaboration
  • Space and budget for personal growth
  • Flexible working hours
  • 30 days vacation
  • Coffee, tea and water for free in our office
  • JobRad-Leasing
  • Events for employees to celebrate our achieved goals and great team-spirit
  • Community of Practice and Knowledge Nuggets for improving your skills
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