(Senior) Platform Engineer (all genders) e*star

EXXETA; Essen; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 80.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading technology firm in Essen is looking for a Platform Engineer to design and build scalable infrastructure using Terraform and cloud technologies. The ideal candidate has a degree in information technology, extensive experience in infrastructure automation, and a self-driven mindset. You will work within an agile team to implement security best practices and ensure platform reliability. The position offers a relaxed environment and supports a healthy work-life balance.

Leistungen

Flexible work-life balance

Fixed health budget for individual services

Qualifikationen

• Degree in the field of (business) information technology or comparable courses.
• Extensive experience with infrastructure automation and IaC tools.
• Familiarity with Git-based processes.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration highly beneficial.
• Knowledge of AWS or other cloud providers is an advantage.
• Familiarity with identity and access management tools and scripting languages.
• Self-driven mindset with a passion for automation and scalability.
• Very good knowledge of English (B2 or higher).

Aufgaben

• Design and build scalable platform infrastructure using cloud technologies.
• Contribute to expansion and establishment of the platform.
• Work within a small Platform Engineering team.
• Implement security best practices in platform design.
• Maintain platform health ensuring performance and reliability.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and support internal users.

Kenntnisse

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

Git-based processes

Kubernetes

Cloud knowledge (AWS)

Self-driven mindset

English proficiency (B2)

Ausbildung

Degree in (business) information technology

Tools

Terraform

Git

Kubernetes

Prometheus

Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

What awaits you

• You will design and build scalable platform infrastructure using modern cloud technologies and infrastructure-as-code practices, mainly focused on Terraform coding for AWS and hosted co-located servers.
• Contribute to the expansion and establishment of our platform.
• Be an autonomous self-starter working within a small Platform Engineering team and have a high capacity to learn new technologies, evaluate, and implement them.
• Be part of an agile team, which introduce and operate practices such as for the containerization in our Kubernetes cluster to run live applications and strive to create solutions that are reusable, scalable and driven by automation.
• Implement security best practices and compliance measures as part of platform design and delivery.
• Maintain and monitor platform health—ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across environments.
• Troubleshoot platform issues and provide support/knowledge sharing to internal users.
• Key Responsibilities: Design, build and evolve a reliable and high-performance cloud platform infrastructure.

What we expect from you

• Background: You have a degree in the field of (business) information technology or comparable courses of study or trainings.
• Infrastructure as code: You have extensive experience with infrastructure automation and IaC tools (Terraform) or a strong willingness to deepen your skills in these areas.
• Version control: You are familiar with Git-based processes and "Git Ops".
• Containerization: Knowledge in containerization and orchestration (Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm) is highly beneficial.
• Cloud-Native: Knowledge of AWS (or other cloud providers) is an advantage.
• Identity and Access Management: Knowledge in Linux, Active Directory, scripting languages such as PowerShell, web-based authentication flows such as OAuth or SAML, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ElasticSearch, Splunk, etc. are desirable.
• Mindset: You possess a self-driven mindset with a passion for automation, scalability, and continuous improvement.
• Let's talk: You have very good knowledge of English – comparable to English level B2 or higher.

Why e*star

• Enjoy a professional environment within a relaxed, friendly corporate culture.
• Mobile working? Night owl or early bird? A classic consultant lifestyle with 5 days on site is not for you? With us you will find enough space for an optimal work-life balance.
• Stay healthy – our company supports you with a fixed health budget for individual services.